Main entry:

Meister, Chris, 1957- author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Title & Author:

Albert Kahn's daylight : an architect reconsidered / Chris Meister.

Publication:

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2025]

Description:

xix, 383 pages illustrations 24 cm.

Series:

Great Lakes Books

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-374) and index.
Lessons in industriousness, art, and liberty -- In the office of Mason & Rice -- The partnerships with Nettleton -- The Belle Isle competition -- Kahn's metamorphosis -- Mason & Kahn -- The Belle Isle Aquarium & Horticultural Building -- Underappreciated seminal commissions -- Another class of architects must arise -- Revolutionizing the art of building -- Henry Ford and Highland Park -- Kahn's office and the cauldron of an American style -- Rapid response during the Great War -- Architecture following the Great War -- Albert Kahn, Inc. -- Ideology and "architectural trend" -- "The approach to design" -- Rescuing modernism -- Bringing out the best.

ISBN:

9780814352731 hardcover
0814352731
ebook
9780814352748

Subject:

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942
Architects United States.
Architects Michigan Detroit.
Architectes Michigan Detroit.
Architecture Michigan Detroit.
Architectes États-Unis.

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Great Lakes books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325293
Call No.: 325293
Copy: 1
Status: Available