{"product_id":"albert-kahn-inc-claire-zimmerman-9780262049115","title":"Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry, 1905-1961","description":"\u003cb\u003eA study of Albert Kahn Incorporated--the architecture firm closely associated with the Ford Motor Company and other auto companies--that explores capitalism and political economy through the built environment of industry and culture.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Albert Kahn Inc. \u003c\/i\u003eClaire Zimmerman provides a history of second-wave industrialization associated with the growth and development of the United States auto industry and its global footprint. A forensic analysis of the \"architects of Ford,\" the book theorizes how building and capitalism intersected in the case of twentieth-century industrial buildings, but also in other kinds of architecture and in the built environment writ large. Generally a marginal subject in histories of architecture, industrialism here exposes the expansionist modern project in Western architecture and culture, which was based on natural resource extraction and labor exploitation. With more than 140 full-color illustrations, the book combines an analysis of industrial architecture with compelling photographic evidence drawn from assorted archives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eZimmerman offers a political economy of architecture; reconceptualizes the design process within a high-volume firm in dialogue with fast-paced industrial capitalism; tracks the feedback loops that industrialization introduced into architecture; and maps the unequal effects of these industrial environments on the workers who labored within them. Ultimately, Zimmerman shows how the coalition of US private capital and state power built industrial installations as imperialist projects, and how its practices survive to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Claire Zimmerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262049112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262049115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Claire Zimmerman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47304754397439,"sku":"9780262049115","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94598e97-ff2d-4f0a-b54c-2c7046dc7433.jpg?v=1758829071","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/albert-kahn-inc-claire-zimmerman-9780262049115","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}