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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 3 Collections and/or Records:

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

Volkswagen Beetle ad, measurements, copies, for How To Build book, undated

 File — Box 37, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Documents work by Ken Isaacs that was done independent of UIC but completed during his time there. It includes exhibit proposals, contest entries and correspondence.

Dates: Other: undated