Talk on Detroit architect Albert Kahn set at Flat Rock Library
FLAT ROCK – The Flat Rock Library will host a free zoom presentation Jan. 20 featuring Detroit author and journalist Michael Hodges on his book: “Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit.”
The program will begin at 6 p.m. Further information is available by calling Michael Cummings, director of the library, at 734-782-2430 or email director@frlib.org.
Kahn was an industrial architect and a giant in Detroit’s heroic age. He was a visionary who invented the humane “daylight factories” that helped spawn both modern manufacturing and modern architecture. In this lecture and slideshow, Detroit News reporter Michael H. Hodges will review Kahn’s local legacy, his vigorous defense of Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry," and his role helping the Soviets beat the Nazis in 1941-42.
Until his retirement in 2021, Hodges was the longtime art critic for the News. "Building the Modern World: Albert Kahn in Detroit" is Hodges' second book on local architecture and won the American Institute of Architects' Balthazar Korab Award for 2019. His first book, "Michigan's Historic Railroad Stations," was named a 2013 Library of Michigan "Notable Book." Hodges grew up on a Rochester Hills dairy farm and spent six years as a student at the Cranbrook School for Boys.
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