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Illinois Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture

 Organization

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Article; "The Incredible Knowledge Box", 29 July 1962

 File — Box: 52, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Comprises Isaacs’ personal reference library, used by him for in-house reference as well as in press kits. For business, he produced and kept documentation files including drawings, plans and photographs about his designs and copies of any media coverage.

Dates: 29 July 1962

Bibliography, design books, Hugo McCauley, 1971

 File — Box: 27, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Covers Isaacs' work as Director of Graduate Studies, including Stanley Tigerman's dismissal and supervision of the John Etenza scholarship. It also documents projects not tied to single semesters or classes and contains work by Isaacs’ students. Overlap of content amongst Sub-subseries occurs, because of how Isaacs himself filed the material.

Dates: 1971

Correspondence; Barbara Isaacs promoting Matrix and Knowledge Box to USIA, IIT, Mumford Lewis, 1963 - 1964

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Series: Contains Isaacs’ early designs and promotional papers for Ken Isaacs Ltd, and records related to his temporally overlapping projects of building Microhouses at Groveland, Illinois, his tenure as contributing editor for Popular Science magazine (1967-1972), and the creation of his first book, Culture Breakers, Alternatives & Other Numbers (1970). The Groveland Subseries includes some press correspondence. The Popular Science Subseries includes article drafts and published copies, as well...
Dates: Other: 1963 - 1964

Emails and agenda; exhibit planning, Knowledge Box, 2009

 File — Box: 49, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: 2009

Kenneth Dale Isaacs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-01
Abstract A graduate and former head of the Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the 1950s, Ken Isaacs was an American designer, author and educator best known for his portable, customizable Living Structures and Microhouses. He claimed his design philosophy was influenced more by anthropologists than by architects. Moving from place to place and working with commonly available building materials were experiences in Isaacs’ own childhood and capabilities that he prioritized in his designs....
Dates: 1900 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1945 - 2016

Tribune article (1962) from IIT archive, 2010

 File — Box: 50, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes correspondence with art historian Victor Margolin, with Wilma Keppel about grid beam construction, an oral history project conducted by Leslie Coburn, and correspondence regarding exhibits, including the rebuilding of the Knowledge Box for the Learning Modern show in 2009 and its inclusion in the Hippie Modernism show in 2015. Presentation binders collect thematic or retrospective materials put together by Isaacs and curatorial partners to represent different aspects of his work for...
Dates: 2010