Fisher Building Detroit (1928) - with Art Deco setbacks
"Albert Kahn Associates" was like a Renaissance artist's studio - incredibly productive, with the hand of "the master" directing it all, but with great freedom and responsibility shared by "all hands on deck."
I really need to read a biography of Kahn.
From Wikipedia:
"Albert Kahn (1869 – 1942) was an American industrial architect. He was accredited the architect of Detroit and designed industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. He designed the construction of Detroit skyscrapers and office buildings as well as mansions in the city suburbs. He led an organization of hundreds of architect associates and in 1937, designed 19% of all architect-designed industrial factories in the United States. Under a unique contract in 1929, Kahn established a design and training office in Moscow, sending twenty-five staff there to train Soviet architects and engineers, and to design hundreds of industrial buildings under their first five-year plan. They trained more than 4,000 architects and engineers using Kahn's concepts. In 1943, the Franklin Institute posthumously awarded Kahn the Frank P. Brown Medal."
Fisher Building Detroit (1928) - with Art Deco setbacks
"Albert Kahn Associates" was like a Renaissance artist's studio - incredibly productive, with the hand of "the master" directing it all, but with great freedom and responsibility shared by "all hands on deck."
I really need to read a biography of Kahn.
From Wikipedia:
"Albert Kahn (1869 – 1942) was an American industrial architect. He was accredited the architect of Detroit and designed industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. He designed the construction of Detroit skyscrapers and office buildings as well as mansions in the city suburbs. He led an organization of hundreds of architect associates and in 1937, designed 19% of all architect-designed industrial factories in the United States. Under a unique contract in 1929, Kahn established a design and training office in Moscow, sending twenty-five staff there to train Soviet architects and engineers, and to design hundreds of industrial buildings under their first five-year plan. They trained more than 4,000 architects and engineers using Kahn's concepts. In 1943, the Franklin Institute posthumously awarded Kahn the Frank P. Brown Medal."