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Albert Kahn Inc. - Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905-1961

English · Hardback

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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 Zimmerman offers a political economy of architecture; reconceptualizes the design process within a high-volume firm in dialogue with fast-paced industrial capitalism; tracks the feedback loops that industrialization introduced into architecture; and maps the unequal effects of these industrial environments on the workers who labored within them. Ultimately, Zimmerman shows how the coalition of US private capital and state power built industrial installations as imperialist projects, and how its practices survive to the present day.

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Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: Assembling the Book
1 Albert Kahn and the Kahn Family Businesses
2. Industrial Architecture, Situated in the Twentieth Century
3. Designing and Planning Industrialized Buildings, “Organs of the Human Brain”
4 Constructing Industrialized Buildings, “Created by the Human Hand”
5 Occupying Industrialized Buildings, “the Power of Knowledge Objectified”
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Appendix A. The Kahn Office
Appendix B. The Kahn Library: German language books in the Kahn collections
Appendix C. The Cost Cards
Appendix D. The Construction Photographs
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Claire Zimmerman

Product details

Authors Claire Zimmerman, Zimmerman Claire
Publisher The MIT Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 24.12.2024
 
EAN 9780262049115
ISBN 978-0-262-04911-5
No. of pages 488
Dimensions 211 mm x 275 mm x 32 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture
Social sciences, law, business

Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Architecture

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