Albert Kahn: architect of Detroit.

Michigan History Magazine | November 1, 2000 | Copyright

The father of modern industrial architecture, Albert Kahn designed and defined the city that boomed as the automobile industry turned Detroit into the Motor City.

A German native who immigrated to Detroit with his family as a young boy, Kahn joined his first architectural firm in 1885. In 1902 he established his own independent practice. By the late 1930s, Kahn employed over six hundred people and is credited with designing nearly one-fifth of the industrial buildings in the United States.

At a time when factories were dirty, cramped and dark, Kahn combined ...

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