Designing for Industry: The Architecture of Albert Kahn

by Grant Hildebrand

Albert Kahn designed his first factory in 1903; by 1918, when he began the Rouge River Ford Plant, he had become the foremost industrial architect of the United States. His reputation soon became international; between 1929 and 1932 Kahn and his staff designed over 500 plants in Russia alone. By the time of his death in 1942, much of the rapid mechanization of the world in the previous forty years had been guided by his designs. Kahn's contribution...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262580403
• ISBN13: 9780262580403
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.