Albert Kahn in Detroit – Presentation and Booksigning by Michael Hodges

Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit, by Michael H. Hodges (Wayne State University Press), tells the tale of the penniless German-Jewish immigrant who never went beyond elementary school, yet at his death was one of the world’s most-famous architects. In this lecture and slide show, Hodges will discuss Kahn’s seminal contributions to modern architecture, his staunch defense of the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Diego Rivera murals when they came under attack, and his role in laying down the industrial backbone for the Soviet Union as chief consulting architect for the first Five Year Plan.