{"product_id":"albert-kahn-inc-9780262049115","title":"Albert Kahn Inc.","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 combin","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090668417367,"sku":"9780262049115","price":51.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262049115.jpg?v=1762273007","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/albert-kahn-inc-9780262049115","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}