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...
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...
For nearly a century, public attention has gravitated toward the architectural brilliance of the Albert Kahn–designed Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. Its story is often told through stone, timber and the iconic lines of Kahn’s 1929 masterpiece. Yet the estate is far...
The future of Detroit’s former Police Headquarters designed by Albert Kahn continues to spark imagination and debate. Although no plans for the long‑vacant landmark have been announced, conversations about its potential reuse have circulated for years. In a recent...
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...
