Fr. 57.00

Albert Kahn''s Daylight - An Architect Reconsidered

English · Hardback

Will be released 01.10.2025

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Author Chris Meister brings a fresh perspective to the internationally renowned Detroit architect Albert Kahn. Understanding his design and production of iconic architecture in Detroit--like the Belle Isle Aquarium & Horticultural Building as well as the Fisher Building--alongside less-heralded projects, readers come to appreciate how Kahn's ingenuity and broad networks cultivated the spread of his influence through his advocacy of daylight in traditionally dark working environments. Beyond Detroit, Meister addresses the complicated global impact of Kahn's work by highlighting his pragmatic approach to architectural design and his involvement in fraught projects such as industrial plants designed for the USSR in Europe's interwar period. This authoritative biography of Kahn's dynamic career establishes him as vital to the development of architectural modernism and to twentieth-century economic and political history.


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Chris Meister is an independent scholar and the author of James Riely Gordon: His Courthouses and Other Public Architecture, which was honored with the Victorian Society in America's Ruth Emery Award and the Conservation Society of San Antonio Publication Award.


Product details

Authors Chris Meister
Assisted by Thomas A Klug (Editor)
Publisher WAYNE
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 01.10.2025
 
EAN 9780814352731
ISBN 978-0-8143-5273-1
No. of pages 440
Series Great Lakes Books
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture

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