About Ken Isaacs
Lived 1927 – 2016 (aged 89). Ken Isaacs was a designer.
Ken Isaacs (7 February 1927 – 8 June 2016), born in Peoria, Illinois, was an American designer. He is known for his creation of a matrix-based modular system to build living structures.
Isaacs described in 1974 how to build modular houses in a book called How to Build Your Own Living Structures. He was head of the Design Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Arts from 1956 to 1958.
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Who was Ken Isaacs?
American designer
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Ken Isaacs was born on 7 February 1927.
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Ken Isaacs died on 8 June 2016.
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Ken Isaacs was a designer.
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