Albert Kahn

1869 – 1942

Albert Kahn was an American architect known as the "architect of Detroit" who, with his brother Julius, designed many of the most important industrial plants of the 20th century, including the Ford River Rouge complex and the Highland Park Ford Plant. His pioneering use of reinforced concrete and steel-truss construction enabled vast, single-story factories that transformed mass production. His firm also designed more than 500 factories in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and early 1930s as part of the first Five-Year Plan, in addition to skyscrapers, mansions, and university buildings across the United States.

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