Ken Isaacs

Ken Isaacs (7 February 1927, Peoria, Illinois – 8 June 2016, Granger, Indiana) was an American designer. He is known for his creation of a matrix-based modular system to build living structures.

Work

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  Ken Isaacs, Knowledge Box, 1962. [1] [2]

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  Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, installation view in Westport, Connecticut, c. 1967. [3]

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  Ken and Barbara Isaacs, Micro Dorm, c. 1967. [4]

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  Ken Isaacs, 8’ Microhouse installed on-site with assembled tetrahedron legs, c. 1972. [5]

Publications

• Ken Isaacs, How to Build Your Own Living Structures, New York: Harmony Books, 1974, 136 pp.

• Culture Breakers: The Living Structures of Ken Isaacs, Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Art Museum, 2014, 15 pp.

• Susan Snodgrass, "Enter the Matrix: An Interview with Ken Isaacs", in Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia, ed. Andrew Blauvelt, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015.

• Susan Snodgrass, Inside the Matrix: The Radical Designs of Ken Isaacs, Chicago, IL: Half Letter Press, 2019, 80 pp. Author. Publisher.
  • Dans la matrice: le design radical de Ken Isaacs, Sombres torrents, 2020, 72 pp. Publisher. (French)

Links

• Tributes: CADA UIC Chicago, Design Issues.