Main entry:

Zimmerman, Claire, 1961- author.

Title & Author:

Albert Kahn Inc. : architecture, labor, and industry, 1905-1961 / Claire Zimmerman.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2025]

Description:

xxv, 459 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-443) and index.
Introduction: Assembling the Book. Welfare Capitalism and Architecture ; "Reading a Machine" : A Note on Method ; A Labor History of the Built Environment ; Architecture, Space, and Democratic Representation ; Albert Kahn in Architecture Culture ; Home and Empire ; Changing Modern Architecture -- 1. Albert Kahn and the Kahn Family Businesses. Introduction ; Authorship ; The Kahn Family ; The Kahn Realty Company ; A Chronicle of Kahn Global Enterprises ; Post-1945 ; Summary: The Kahns' Global Footprint -- 2. Industrial Architecture, Situated in the Twentieth Century. A Word about Industrial Architecture ; Industrial Architecture and Efficiency ; Defining Industrial Architecture ; Seamless Steal Tubes [sic] : From Functionalism to Industrial Flow ; Industrial Buildings and Power ; DSST Revisited ; Industrial Capitalism and Its Buildings ; Constant Industrial Production versus Variable Worker Wages ; Industrial Capitalism and Its Buildings, 2 ; Conclusion - 3. Designing and Planning Industrialized Buildings : "Organs of the Human Brain". Redefining Design ; Chapter Map ; "Assembly-Line" Design ; Building-Machines versus Men-Machines ; Industrial Architectural Design to 1939 ; "The Slaughterhouse of Detroit" and Welfare Capitalism for Architecture ; Style Identity in Pre-World War II Motor City ;Transnational Industrial Architecture ; The Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Plymouth, Michigan ; The Kahn Library ; Industrial Architecture as Architecture ; Designing the Roof Plane : Glenn Martin Middle River and Beyond ; Conclusion - 5. Constructing Industrialized Buildings : "Created by the Human Hand". Introduction: Cycles of Innovation and Rapid Production ; Chapter Map ; Feedback Loops : Cost Accounting and Construction Photography ; Site Photography ; Cost Accounts ; Construction : The "Balance Wheel of American Industry'' ; Constructing the Daylight Factory ; Flexible Production on the Building Site ; The Hudson Motor Car Company Portfolio, 1910 ; The GM Building ; Flexible Building Implementation : Ford River Rouge Construction ; Red River : Moritz Kahn on the Volga and the Soviet Projects ; From Detroit to Moscow ; From Moscow to Detroit ; Wartime Constructions : Curtiss-Wright ; Conclusion - 5. Occupying Industrialized Buildings : "The Power of Knowledge Objectified". Buildings and Workers : A History of Industrial Occupations ; Workers and Managers on the Shop Floor and in the City ; The Foundry ; Machines of Class Formation ; Occupying Buildings ; Architecture and Collective Bargaining ; Wartime Occupations ; Conclusion - Conclusion. 1961 ; Summary of the Book's Arguments ; Value -- Appendix A: The Kahn Office -- Appendix B: The Kahn Library : German-Language Books on Architecture in the Kahn Collections -- Appendix C: The Cost Records -- Appendix D: The Construction Photographs.

Summary:

"A study of the US architect Albert Kahn, architect of the Ford motor company, and one that combines a scholarly history and interpretation with a set of remarkable archival images."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780262049115 hardcover
0262049112 hardcover
electronic book
9780262379557
9780262379540

Subject:

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942 Criticism and interpretation.
Albert Kahn Associates History.
Architecture and society United States History 20th century.
Industrialization Social aspects United States History 20th century.
Architecture et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Industrialisation Aspect social États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321973
Call No.: 321973
Copy: 1
Status: Available