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Albert Kahn's Industrial Architecture : Form Follows Performance
Albert Kahn's Industrial Architecture : Form Follows Performance
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Author(s): Bürklin, Thorsten
ISBN No.: 9783035618099
Pages: 240
Year: 201905
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 110.99
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Albert Kahn is probably the mostimportant industrial architect of the 20th century. With his factory forthe Ford T-models, designed for mass production, he found himself atthe beginning of modern industrial architecture. His industrialbuildings inspired the architects of European Modernism. They were theexamples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrialdevelopments became the guiding principle for the New Building movementup until today. The unrivalled monograph with its numerousphotographs, plan layouts, site plans, and virtual 3D modelscomprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn, which he wasable to construct in a very short time due to his system-based workingmethod - in the USA but also in the Soviet Union, Brazil, Sweden,France, China, Japan, and Australia. Unrivalled monograph about the most important industrial architect of the 20th century Numerous historical and current photographs, layout plans, site plans, virtual 3D models, and photographs of analog models.


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