Kahn’s Detroit: A Field Guide to Albert Kahn Designs of the Metro Area
Dale Carlson author of Corrado Parducci ~ A Field Guide to Detroit’s Architectural Sculptor, has just published Kahn’s Detroit: A Field Guide to Albert Kahn Designs of the Metro Detroit Area. This new volume contains 301 plates, mostly in color, and chronicles the work and legacy of master architect Albert Kahn in design and photographs. Kahn’s Detroit contains a biography of key-dates, a well documented bibliography; including books, journals, periodicals, websites, newspaper articles, and an index of architectural sites. This handy and useful guidebook to location and visual styles is the first of its kind, and will make a quick and easy reference tool to the many styles of buildings, public and private that Kahn helped produce.
Albert Kahn (March 21, 1869 – December 8, 1942) was an American industrial architect. He was accredited the architect of Detroit and designed industrial plant complexes such as the Ford River Rouge automobile complex. He designed the construction of Detroit skyscrapers and office buildings as well as mansions in the city suburbs. He led an organization of hundreds of architect associates and in 1937, designed 19% of all architect-designed industrial factories in the United States.
Trade paperback, 6.5 x 8.75″, 270 pps, 301 color and black and white plates, trade paperback in wraps, published by Dale Carlson, 2022.
About Dale Carlson: Author, photographer and architectural historian, Dale A. Carlson was born and raised along the northeastern shores of Lake Michigan where, as an adolescent, he developed a fascination with the city of Detroit. Throughout the 1990s Mr. Carlson studied art, journalism and graphic design at four Michigan colleges including Michigan State University, while simultaneously migrating closer and closer to the Detroit Metro Area. In 2004 he made southeast Oakland County his permanent home, and in 2019 he earned an associate degree in photographic technology from Oakland Community College. He serves on the City of Berkley’s Historical Committee and is the author of Corrado Parducci: A Field Guide to Detroit’s Architectural Sculptor. His latest project, Kahn’s Detroit: A Field Guide to Albert Kahn Designs of the Metro Area, showcases 300 extant Kahn designs in southeast Michigan. Mr. Carlson will also publish a field guide to stained glass of the New Orleans metropolis late in the year and he calls the city his second home. He credits his late wife, Carolin Venegas Jones, whom he married in 2014, for inspiring his ventures into publishing and photography.
PLEASE NOTE: Copies are now out-of-stock and are due from the publisher sometime during the Spring of 2024.
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