Perhaps Kahn's most famous plant, this building has two major steel and glass structures: the Assembly Building, 402 × 2,262 feet in plan, and the Export Building, 122 × 242 feet in plan. Kahn utilized cantilevered bent steel beams, allowing the monitors to hang below the roof level and thus improve the lighting.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Chrysler Corporation Dodge Half-Ton Truck Plant", [Warren, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-MB2.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 173-173.
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