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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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