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Book

Albert Kahn's daylight : an architect reconsidered

Call Number

  • 720.92 K12 M515 2025 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2025]

Physical Description

xix, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Lessons in industriousness, art, and liberty
  • In the office of Mason & Rice
  • The partnerships with Nettleton
  • The Belle Isle competition
  • Kahn's metamorphosis
  • Mason & Kahn
  • The Belle Isle Aquarium & Horticultural Building
  • Underappreciated seminal commissions
  • Another class of architects must arise
  • Revolutionizing the art of building
  • Henry Ford and Highland Park
  • Kahn's office and the cauldron of an American style
  • Rapid response during the Great War
  • Architecture following the Great War
  • Albert Kahn, Inc.
  • Ideology and "architectural trend"
  • "The approach to design"
  • Rescuing modernism
  • Bringing out the best.

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