Albert Kahn is probably the most important industrial architect of the 20th century. With his
factory for the Ford T-models designed for mass production he found himself at the beginning
of modern industrial architecture. His industrial buildings inspired the architects of European
Modernism. They were the examples by which the structural rationality of Kahn's industrial
developments became the guiding principle for the New Building movement up until today. The
unrivalled monograph with its numerous photographs plan layouts site plans and virtual 3D
models comprehensively documents the buildings of Albert Kahn which he was able to construct
in a very short time due to his system-based working method - in the USA but also in the Soviet
Union Brazil Sweden France China Japan and Australia.
