Description: This exploration of Kahn's dynamic career establishes the architect as a vital figure for the global development of architectural modernism and to twentieth-century economic and political history.
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Using a broad range of newly seen archival resources, Meister examines Kahn's design and production of iconic architecture such as the belle isle aquarium and Horticultural Building and the Fisher Building alongside less-heralded projects, outlining how Kahn's ingenuity and broad networks cultivated the spread of his influence through his advocacy of daylight in traditionally dark working enviornments.
-- "Society for Industrial Archeology Newsletter"