Albert Kahn's industrial architecture : form follows performance / Thorsten Bürklin, Jürgen Reichardt (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bürklin, Thorsten, editor.

Reichardt, Jürgen, editor.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942.

Kahn, Albert.

Architecture, Industrial.

Physical Description:

261 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 34 cm

Place of Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, [2019]

Summary:

"Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia"-- "Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia"-- Provided by publisher.c Provided by publisher.

"Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Construction / Jürgen Reichardt

Nothingness / Thorsten Bürklin

Projects

Packard Forge Shop, Detroit, Michigan, 1910

Ford Motor Company Eagle Shipbuilding Plant (B Building), River Rouge, Detroit, Michigan, 1919

Ford Glass Plant, River Rouge, Michigan, 1922-23

Chrysler Half-ton Truck Plant, Export Building, Dodge Division, Warren, Detroit, Michigan, 1937-38

Chrysler Half-ton Truck Plant, Assembly Building, Mound Road, Detroit, Michigan, 1938

Glenn Martin Assembly Building, Middle River, Maryland, 1937

Chrysler Tank Arsenal, Warren Township, Michigan, 1940-42

Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1941

Transfer / Rudolf Fischer

After / Claire Zimmerman

Today : current photographs of Albert Kahn's industrial buildings.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

Contains:

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942. Works. Selections.

Other Format:

German edition

ISBN:

9783035618099

3035618097

OCLC:

1103490482

Publisher Number:

9783035618099