Albert Kahn (1869-1942) Collection
Biography/History
Albert Kahn was an important and prolific Detroit architect renowned, on one hand, for his eclectic residences and institutional buildings, and on the other hand, for his massive output of modern designs for factories and industrial buildings. Kahn designed at least seven projects in the Pittsburgh area, including a series of buildings for H. J. Heinz Company between 1926 and 1937. A Pittsburgh automobile dealership is designed in a modernistic manner, but the Heinz buildings are more eclectic in style, and none of the Pittsburgh-area work is on Kahn's cutting edge of industrial design.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of blueprints for five Pittsburgh projects including an automobile dealership and three buildings for the H. J. Heinz Company.
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August 20, 1998 -- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Research/ArchArch/kahn-a.html
Martin Aurand, Architecture Librarian and Archivist, ma1f@andrew.cmu.edu
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