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Uniform Title Albert Kahns Industriearchitektur. English
Title Albert Kahn's industrial architecture : form follows performance / Thorsten Bürklin, Jürgen Reichardt (eds.)
Published Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, [2019]
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Description 261 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 34 cm
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
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"--
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256)
Subject Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942
Architecture, Industrial
Author Bürklin, Thorsten, editor
Reichardt, Jürgen, editor
Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942. Works. Selections
LC no. 2019931211
ISBN 9783035618099
3035618097