Title & Author:

Albert Kahn's industrial architecture : form follows performance / Thorsten Bürklin, Jürgen Reichardt (eds.).

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, part of Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, [2019]
©2019

Description:

261 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 34 cm

Notes:
"Both the analog and the vitual models were created by project groups of the students of MSA Münster School of Architecture, Münster University of Applied Sciences. Likewise, the students too charge of phtoographing the models, of post-editing the photographs, of a large part of the research, and of taks associated with the "Albert Kahn's Industrial Architecture" symposium during the 2017 Annual exhibition." - p.261.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256).
Construction / Jürgen Reichardt -- Nothingness / Thorsten Bürklin -- Projects : Packard Forge Shop, Detroit, Michigan, 1910 -- Ford Motor Company Eagle Shipbuilding Plant (B Building), River Rouge, Detroit, Michigan, 1919 -- Ford Glass Plant, River Rouge, Michigan, 1922-23 -- Chrysler Half-ton Truck Plant, Export Building, Dodge Division, Warren, Detroit, Michigan, 1937-38 -- Chrysler Half-ton Truck Plant, Assembly Building, Mound Road, Detroit, Michigan, 1938 -- Glenn Martin Assembly Building, Middle River, Maryland, 1937 -- Chrysler Tank Arsenal, Warren Township, Michigan, 1940-42 -- Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1941 -- Transfer / Rudolf Fischer -- After / Claire Zimmerman -- Today: current photographs of Albert Kahn's industrial buildings -- The team of students of MSA Münster School of Architecture, Münster University of Applied Sciences.

Summary:

"Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia"--"Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory for the Ford T models, designed for mass production, he found himself at the beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he was able to construct in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden, France, China, Japan, and Australia"--! Provided by publisher.c Provided by publisher

ISBN:

9783035618099 (English edition ; hardbound)
3035618097 (English edition ; hardbound)

Subject:

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942.
Architecture, Industrial.
Architecture industrielle.

Added entries:

Bürklin, Thorsten, editor.
Reichardt, Jürgen, 1956- editor.
Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942. Works. Selections.
Universität Münster.

Industrial architecture
Form follows performance

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305510
Call No.: BIB 251403
Status: Available