Ken Isaacs
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Ken Isaacs (7 February 1927, Peoria, Illinois – 8 June 2016) was an American designer. He is known for his creation of a matrix-based modular system to build living structures.
- Work
Ken Isaacs, Beach Matrix, installation view in Westport, Connecticut, c. 1967. [3]
Ken and Barbara Isaacs, Micro Dorm, c. 1967. [4]
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.