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Albert Kahn: Unintended Consequences

When

Thursday October 27, 2022: 6:30pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Traverwood Branch: Program Room

Description

From 1929 to 1932 Albert Kahn, Inc. oversaw the design and construction of over 500 factories in Soviet Russia; many converted to munitions production during World War II. Without Kahn’s unintended contributions to the Russian war effort there is arguably no decisive Allied victory, making these adaptive renovations among the most influential to ever be applied to his designs. What unique reuses of Kahn designs might we find in metro Detroit if we went looking? Which exhibit the greatest degrees of versatility and unintended consequences? Enjoy this examination of the most wildly unpredictable reuses of Kahn buildings in Metropolitan Detroit.

Dale A. Carson is a photographer and author of Corrado Parducci: A Field Guide to Detroit’s Architectural Sculptor.

 

A three-quarter black and white portrait of Albert Kahn is superimposed over a birds-eye drawing of his tractor plant design. He is in a suite and is wearing round wire-rimmed glasses.