Albert Kahn
Albert Kahn · Technology & Engineering
Architect of Ford's Highland Park and River Rouge plants — the factories of the assembly line — and of industrial Detroit.
21 March 1869, Rhaunen, Prussia (Germany) — 8 December 1942, Detroit, Michigan, United States
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Albert Kahn is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Architect of Ford's Highland Park and River Rouge plants — the factories of the assembly line — and of industrial Detroit.
Born to a Jewish family in Rhaunen — his father was a rabbi — Albert Kahn emigrated to Detroit and became the architect of the industrial age. With his brother Julius' reinforced-concrete system he built factories full of light and open floor: Ford's Highland Park plant (1909), where the moving assembly line was born, then the immense River Rouge complex, Packard, Willow Run. Under a 1929 contract his office trained Soviet engineers and designed hundreds of factories; Detroit's skyline, from the Fisher Building down, is his.
The man who drew the room where the Model T learned to move made architecture serve the century's real cathedral: the factory.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(architect)
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Architect of Ford's Highland Park and River Rouge plants — the factories of the assembly line — and of industrial Detroit.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(architect)
