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How to Build Your Own Living Structures

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: 1974 book by Ken Isaacs, published by Harmony Books

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Book jacket, How To Build Your Own Living Structures

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_40_10

Contact sheet; Cover art, How to Build Your Own Living Structure book, c. 1973

 File — Box 71, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents From the Series: Records Isaacs’ design work, including studio and process shots, and classroom activity and student work. There are also some personal photographs of Isaacs’ parents, his youth, and his family. Most photos were created by or for Isaacs, although some are copies by photojournalists covering Isaacs for newspapers and magazines. Photographic prints and transparencies make up most of the series, though there are recordings of lectures by and about Isaacs, audio notes, media appearances, and...
Dates: c. 1973

Correspondence; Wilma Keppel, grid beam construction, 2006 - 2007

 File — Box 50, 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: 2006 - 2007

Drawing of Figure with a Raised Saw on a Farm Truck

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_39_02_23
Dates: Digitized: 202101_39_02_23

Drawing v. 2 of Figure with a Raised Saw on a Farm Truck

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_39_02_24

Ken Isaacs and Vicky Model Microdorm 2

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_86_01_13

Layout sketch, notes, for truck drawing and saw text

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_39_02_27

Self Portrait in Brimmed Fishing Hat

 Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_71_13_01