Susan Snodgrass is a senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. As a critic, she has written for both print and online publications, most notably for Art in America, for which she was a corresponding editor (1994–2013), and for ARTMargins Online, for which she is the publication’s coeditor.for Street of Crocodiles.
Enter the Matrix: An Interview with Ken Isaacs
In the work of Ken Isaacs, creator of Superchair (1967) and the Knowledge Box (1962), simplicity is “absolutely monumental.” The architect/designer/writer discusses the ideas behind his pivotal designs, the concept of a “total environment,” his Microhouse project in Groveland, Illinois, and the way he developed and practiced “a lifelong commitment to a populist form of architecture.”