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

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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Claire Zimmerman, Zimmerman Claire
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.12.2024, delayed
• 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; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Architecture