Download or read book The Legacy of Albert Kahn written by Albert Kahn and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Back Cover: An invaluable handbook tracing the creative genius of Albert Kahn, one of America's most distinguished architects, The Legacy of Albert Kahn presents a chronology of designs in the areas of commercial, civic, institutional, and domestic architecture. Over 280 photographs, drawings, and floor plans illustrate the highly readable text.
Download or read book Building the Modern World written by Michael H. Hodges and published by Painted Turtle. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographically rich biography of protean architect Albert Kahn.
Download or read book Albert Kahn written by Roger Matuz and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Biography of the German-Born Jewish Architect Who, From the 1880s Through the Early 1940s, Designed Elegant Homes, Factories for Henry Ford, and Industrial Plants to Support the United States' War Effort.
Download or read book Designing for Industry written by Grant Hildebrand and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1980-05-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the career and work of Albert Kahn, including the unique team practice that he originated.
Download or read book The Art of Collaboration Innovation written by Albert Kahn Associates and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 125 years, Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. has committed to designing and engineering innovative facilities that surpass the needs of our clients. Guided by the legacy of our founder Albert Kahn and a passion for architecture and engineering, Kahn commits to putting our clients first and delivering a remarkable product.Having designed over 45,000 projects around the world, Kahn's expertise starts with architecture, engineering, interior design, program management, and master planning, and spans through commissioning, business and management needs, strategic facilities planning, value and sustainability analysis.
Download or read book Albert Kahn written by Federico Bucci and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough text and some 90 bandw photographs and drawings present the projects of seminal industrial architect Kahn (1869-1942), including the Ford Motor Company River Rouge Plant, Dearborn, Michigan; Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Detroit Michigan; Tractor Plant, Stalingrad, Russia; General Motors Building, Chicago World's Fair; and Kellogg Company, Battle Creek, Michigan. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Cosmopolitics of the Camera written by Trond Erik Bjorli and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth intellectual and historical analysis of Les Archives de la Planète, Albert Kahn's collection of early colour photography and documentary film. The book examines the extraordinary context of Kahn's work, considers archival theory and visual culture, and investigates the cosmopolitanstrategies of Kahn and associates, e.g. Henri Bergson.
Download or read book Counter Archive written by Paula Amad and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucked away in a garden on the edge of Paris is a multimedia archive like no other: Albert Kahn's Archives de la Planète (1908-1931). Kahn's vast photo-cinematographic experiment preserved world memory through the privileged lens of everyday life, and Counter-Archive situates this project in its biographic, intellectual, and cinematic contexts. Tracing the archive's key influences, such as the philosopher Henri Bergson, the geographer Jean Brunhes, and the biologist Jean Comandon, Paula Amad maps an alternative landscape of French cultural modernity in which vitalist philosophy cross-pollinated with early film theory, documentary film with the avant-garde, cinematic models of temporality with the early Annales school of history, and film's appropriation of the planet with human geography and colonial ideology. At the heart of the book is an insightful meditation upon the transformed concept of the archive in the age of cinema and an innovative argument about film's counter-archival challenge to history. The first comprehensive study of Kahn's films, Counter-Archive also offers a vital historical perspective on debates involving archives, media, and memory.
Download or read book Albert Kahn s Industrial Architecture written by Thorsten Bürklin and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Albert Kahn Associates written by Albert Kahn Associates and published by L'Arcaedizioni. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architect Albert Kahn was one of the early inventors of the automobile factory in the early 1900s. Today, Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. (AKA) continues his legacy by leading the industry in factory architecture and in many other fields, from big university complexes to the most updated research centers -- as a fully integrated, multi-disciplinary professional practice, with wide-ranging diversity, flexibility and responsiveness to customer needs.
Download or read book Albert Kahn and His Family in Peace and War written by William R. Brashear and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dawn of the Color Photograph written by David Okuefuna and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909 the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn launched a monumentally ambitious project: to produce a color photographic record of human life on Earth. An internationalist and pacifist, Kahn believed that he could use the new autochrome--the world's first portable, true-color photographic process--to create a global photographic archive that would promote cross-cultural understanding and peace. Over the next twenty years, he sent a group of photographers to more than fifty countries around the world, amassing more than 72,000 images. Until recently his collection was all but forgotten. Now, a century after he began his "Archives of the Planet" project, this book--richly illustrated in color throughout--and the BBC series it follows are bringing Kahn's dazzling early twentieth-century pictures to a wide audience for the first time, and putting color into what we usually think of as a monochrome world. Kahn's photographers captured times, places, and people we simply do not expect to see in color photographs. They documented age-old cultures on the brink of being changed forever by war, modernization, and Westernization, recording the last years of Ireland's traditional Celtic villages and the late days of the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires. They photographed First World War soldiers in their trenches as well as the postwar celebrations in London. In the course of their travels, they also took the earliest color photographs in countries as varied as Vietnam and Brazil, Mongolia and Norway, Benin and the United States. After being financially ruined in the Great Depression, Kahn was forced to bring his project to a premature end, but today his collection of early color photographs is recognized as one of the world's most important. The Dawn of the Color Photograph makes it easy to see why.
Download or read book Albert Kahn written by Albert Kahn and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wonderful World of Albert Kahn written by David Okuefuna and published by Ebury Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until recently, Albert Kahn's huge collection of 72,000 Autochromes remained relatively unheard of. This book and the BBC TV series it accompanies bring these pictures to a mass audience and put colour into what is thought of as an entirely monochrome age.
Download or read book Joys and Sorrows written by Pablo Casals and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface Architecture written by David Leatherbarrow and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the building surface, architecture's primary instrument of identity and engagement with its surroundings. Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology. Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding. Once the skin of the building became independent of its structure, it could just as well hang like a curtain, or like clothing. The focus of the relationship between structure and skin is the architectural surface. In tracing the handling of this surface, the authors examine both contemporary buildings and those of the recent past. Architects discussed include Albert Kahn, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alison and Peter Smithson, Alejandro de la Sota, Robert Venturi, Jacques Herzog, and Pierre de Meuron. The properties of a building's surface—whether it is made of concrete, metal, glass, or other materials—are not merely superficial; they construct the spatial effects by which architecture communicates. Through its surfaces a building declares both its autonomy and its participation in its surroundings.
Download or read book Prophets of Regulation written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is properly no history, only biography," Emerson remarked, and in this ingenious book Thomas McGraw unfolds the history of four powerful men: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, and Alfred E. Kahn. The absorbing stories he tells make this a book that will appeal across a wide spectrum of academic disciplines and to all readers interested in history, biography, and Americana.
