Henry Ford’s Fordlandia experiment remains one of the most astonishing and improbable chapters in industrial history: a Midwestern company town carved into the Amazon rainforest in the late 1920s. A recent report from TV station WOOD/NBC/Grand Rapids revisits this...
Architecture has always been one of the University of Michigan’s quietest but most influential teachers. Long before today’s debates over residence halls, classroom buildings or campus master plans, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen understood that a university’s built...
In June 1942, Time magazine published a 1,300‑word profile of Albert Kahn. World War II was the big story and it dominated nearly every page of the publication. The issue’s cover story examined top German General Franz Halder’s plans for the second year of the Nazi...
One of the most thoughtful historic preservation initiatives recently undertaken has been the adaptive reuse of Detroit’s Albert Kahn Building, which is now known simply as The Kahn. Kraemer Design Group’s detailed narrative of the work done on the building’s original...
“The Albert Kahn Sonata” has been selected as the winner of Artistic Film Award at the 2026 Detroit Trinity International Film Festival. This outstanding film celebrating the architectural legacy of Albert Kahn impressed the festival’s selection committee with its...
The Foundation recently hosted a group of architecture and Detroit history enthusiasts for a 90-minute walking tour of the city’s cultural center area, which is located about two miles north of downtown Detroit. Led by Jacob Jones, a noted Detroit historian and...
