Yohan khan biography of albert

KAHN, Albert (1869-1942) of Detroit, Mich.

Yohan khan biography of albert

was a dominant force in the field of industrial architecture in North America in the 20th century. No single designer was more influential than Kahn when it came to planning automotive assembly plants both in the United States and Canada.

Born in Rhaunen, Germany on 21 March 1869, he was raised in Luxembourg and was brought to the United States by his family in 1880. With the advice and assistance of the sculptor Julius Melcher he learned to draw, and at the age of fifteen he joined the Detroit office of Mason & Rice in 1884.

His training there was considerably enhanced when he was awarded a traveling scholarship in 1890, enabling him to visit Europe, accompanied by another young and talented American architect Henry Bacon. In 1896 Kahn became a partner in a new Detroit firm of Nettleton, Kahn & Trowbridge, and in 1902 he opened his own office in that city with Ernest Wilby, an English-born architect who had been