Progressive House
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Educational structure built by UIC students co-taught by Ken Isaacs and Andrew Freear. C 1997
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Notes, correspondence, memos; Progressive House, 1997
File — Box 28, Folder: 29
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:
Other: 1997
Proposal; "Transformation of the American House", 1996
File — Box 48, Folder: 10
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:
1996