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“Albert Kahn,1869-1942, an architect of German-Jewish origin, born 1869 (Rhaunen, Germany) died 1942 (Detroit), had an astonishing career fromthe beginning of this century. He is best known for his industrial architecture as related to the rising auto industry and the US war effort in World War I and World War II. He was responsible not only for almost all of the major industrial plants of the Big Three and other auto manufacturers in the US, but also for aviation industry plants, hospitals, banks, commercial buildings, public buildings, temples, libraries, clubs and over one hundred beautiful mansions.
During the Great Depression in the US, the Soviet Union government comissioned him to design most of the industrial complexes of the so-called Five Year Plan, which turned out to be more than 530 plants in a period of two-and-a-half years.
His aesthetic in industrial architecture was adopted by the leading architects of the Bauhaus movement and, with the increasing influence of the so-called International Style, it shaped the twentieth century's architecture as a whole.”
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