Albert Kahn Inc.
Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905-1961
$190.75
- Hardcover
488 pages
- Release Date
16 September 2025
Summary
A study of Albert Kahn Incorporated—the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies—that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.
In Albert Kahn Inc., Claire Zimmerman provides a history of second-wave industrialization associated with the growth and development of the United States auto industry and its global footprint. A forensic analysis of the “architects of Ford,” the b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262049115 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262049112 |
| Author: | Claire Zimmerman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 488 |
| Release Date: | 16 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.73kg |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 274mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
“Some books in architectural history rival the monumentality of buildings themselves. Claire Zimmerman’s Albert Kahn Inc. is one such case. It evokes monumentality not only in its physical heft but in its landmark contribution to the field”
—Critical Inquiry
About The Author
Claire Zimmerman
Claire Zimmerman is Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto, where she directs the PhD program in Architecture, Landscape, and Design. She is the author of Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century (Minnesota, 2014) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Taschen, 2006) and coeditor of Architecture against Democracy- Histories of the Nationalist International (Minnesota, 2024) and Detroit-Moscow-Detroit- An Architecture for Industrialization (MIT Press, 2023), among others.
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