Building the modern world : Albert Kahn in Detroit / Michael H. Hodges.

Main entry:

Hodges, Michael H., 1954- author.

Title & Author:

Building the modern world : Albert Kahn in Detroit / Michael H. Hodges.

Publication:

Detroit, Michigan : Painted Turtle, an imprint of Wayne State University Press, [2018]

Description:

xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Series:

A painted turtle book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The architect vanishes -- Foundation -- Building -- Henry Ford and the Jews -- Packard No. 10 to General Motors -- Strife and Fisher glory -- To Moscow and back -- Diego Rivera and Detroit Industry -- Turbulent thirties -- The monster of modernism -- War.
A 2019 Michigan Notable Book selection

Summary:

"Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit tells the story of the German-Jewish immigrant who rose from poverty to become one of the most influential architects of the twentieth century. Kahn's buildings not only define downtown Detroit, but his early car factories for Packard Motor and Ford revolutionized the course of industry and architecture alike. Employing archival sources unavailable to previous biographers, Building the Modern World follows Kahn from his apprenticeship at age thirteen with a prominent Detroit architecture firm to his death. With material gleaned from two significant Kahn archives--the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library and the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution--Hodges paints the most complete picture yet of Kahn's remarkable rise. Special emphasis is devoted to his influence on architectural modernists, his relationship with Henry Ford, his intervention to save the Diego Rivera murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts (unreported until now), and his work laying down the industrial backbone for the Soviet Union in 1929-31 as consulting architect for the first Five Year Plan. Kahn's ascent from poverty, his outsized influence on both industry and architecture, and his proximity to epochal world events make his life story a tableau of America's rise to power."--Publisher's website

ISBN:

9780814340356 (hardcover)
0814340350 (hardcover)
9780814340363 (ebk. ; alk. paper)
0814340369

Subject:

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942.
Architects Michigan Detroit Biography.
Architecture Michigan Detroit.
Jewish architects Michigan Detroit Biography.
Antisemitism United States.
Jews, German Michigan Detroit Biography.
Architectes Michigan Detroit Biographies.
Architectes juifs Michigan Detroit Biographies.
Antisémitisme États-Unis.
Juifs allemands Michigan Detroit Biographies.
Jews, German.
Jewish architects.
Buildings.
Antisemitism.
Architects.
Architecture.
Jews, German United States Biography.
Jewish architects United States Biography.
Detroit (Mich.) Buildings, structures, etc.
United States.
Michigan Detroit.

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies.

Added entries:

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942.

Albert Kahn in Detroit

Holdings:

Location: Library main 326090
Call No.: 326090
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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