Detroit’s Packard automobile plant is slowly yielding to the wreckers in preparation for a new use for the land. The Detroit Packard factory was first constructed in 1903 as a complex of one- and two-story brick and timber buildings, designed by brothers Albert and Julius Kahn. At the time, the brother were in a partnership […]

No architect of the 20th century was more significant or influential than Albert Kahn. Although the firm is best known in Detroit for a number of impressive office buildings, Kahn’s greatest contributions were in industrial architecture and the management and operation of a modern architecture firm. Albert Kahn possessed enormous foresight and a superb business […]