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...automobile talk is native folklore. More closely identified with that architecture than anyone else alive is a burly, white-haired man of 69 who lives and does most of his breathing at a drafting board in Detroit's New Center Building. Albert Kahn has been Packard's architect for 35 years, Ford's for 30, Chrysler's since the firm was incorporated in 1925, General Motors' on 127 projects. And as the products of those companies girdle the globe, so do the works of Albert Kahn, Inc. Employing a normal staff...
...Stanford White, all this would have been no particular commendation of Albert Kahn as an architect. But young architects today have heard and understood Le Corbusier's definition of a house as a "machine for living," Frank Lloyd Wright's statement that in ideal architecture "form and function are one." Lately, to his great surprise, indefatigable Albert Kahn has discovered that the industrial buildings he has been designing all these years are "modern architecture." To show how essentially modern they are, in logic, economy, and use of steel and glass, THE ARCHITECTURAL FORUM this week devotes its August...
...like many of them, he had to create his own market. When he began factory work in 1903 he had to show industrialists that he could design cheaper and more efficient buildings than their own engineers. He still has to. Kahn clients see eye to eye with an architect who says, as Kahn says, "Architecture is 90% business...
...tennis tournament on the French Riviera, a fresh-minded young English architect falls in love with his partner, a beautiful, pessimistic and wholly mysterious American girl under an alias, discovers only by accident, when she has vanished, that she is the daughter of an eccentric U. S. billionaire who lives somewhere in the Southwest...
...Angeles, a nervy adventurer is investigating the mysterious murder of his brother, a reporter. Clues lead dangerously to the Brotherhood of the Judgment, a fanatical sect headed by sinister Father John, whose real name is MacMichael. Sect headquarters are in Barstow. There arrive the architect, the scientist and the adventurer. During the next 187 pages, at the MacMichael desert palace, the three young men are shot at, kidnapped, finally escape an awful doom, not very much to a reader's relief...