Deborah Berke Revs Up a Historic Ford Plant for 21C Museum Hotel Oklahoma City
The most important 20th-century architect most folks have never heard of might be Albert Kahn. Decades before artists lived and worked in lofts—or industrial was even considered a style, to say nothing of a superlative—Albert Kahn Architect built factories for U.S. industry. From Kahn’s base in Detroit, his influence, like his oeuvre, fanned out across the country, accompanying the path of the automobile. In 1916, he completed an Oklahoma City plant where the Ford Motor Company could assemble cars flat-packed in Michigan.
