History of American Architecture: Detroit and the World - Week 1

FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS: THE CREATION OF MODERN DETROIT Architects include Paul Philippe Cret, Albert Kahn, Wirt Rowland, Smith, Hinchman & Grylls The series begins with a study of Detroit’s most extraordinary moment of growth: the meteoric rise from a regional city of less than 300,000 residents in 1900 to a global center of automobile production populated by 1.6 million residents in 1930. While architect Albert Kahn’s pioneering factories transformed the contours of city and suburb, the wealth created in Detroit’s factories was invested in exuberant skyscrapers downtown. Like the cars rolling off factory assembly lines, the architectural innovations made in Detroit would spread around the world.