Housing Reform at Kahn’s Crystal Palace Webinar

Join us for an immersive webinar with architect and historian Michael McCulloch. Michael is the author of  Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit.

Wednesday, February 26th – 7:00 PM

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Members are Free, Non-members $10.00

Though better known for automobile assembly, Ford’s Highland Park Plant was also a center of Progressive Era housing reform. There, in the 1910s, company agents worked to establish a new “American” standard of living among employees, helping to shape Detroit’s modern culture and the form of the rapidly growing city itself.

During this webinar you will learn from Michael McCulloch. Michael is an architect and historian whose research engages housing, labor, industrialization, and landscape. He is Associate Professor and Chair of the Master of Architecture Program at Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Michigan and a M.S. in Urban Design from Columbia University. He is the author of Building a Social Contract: Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit (Temple University Press, 2023), and has fond memories of working for Albert Kahn Associates in 2005-2006 as a young architectural intern.

This event will be moderated by former board member John Gallagher!