Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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| Hugh Newell Jacobsen | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Hugh Newell Jacobsen |
| Nationality |  American |
| Birth date | 1929 |
| Birth place | Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Work | |
| Significant buildings | Beech House, 1963 University of Michigan Alumni Center, 1982 |
Hugh Newell Jacobsen (1929 - ) is a prominent United States architect.
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[edit] Life
[edit] Education and Early Career
Hugh Newell Jacobsen was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1929. Educated at the University of Maryland, he received a BA in 1951. He also attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Jacobsen then received his B. Arch. and M. Arch. from Yale University in 1955.
After finishing his formal education, Jacobsen briefly worked in New Canaan, Connecticut as an apprentice to Philip Johnson in 1955. He then worked for Keyes, Lethbridge and Condon in Washington, D.C. from 1957 to 1958.
In 1958, Jacobsen began the practice of architecture under his own name in Washington and has maintained a small, private practice there since.[1]
[edit] Work
Jacobsen is best known for his modern pavilion-based residences - compositions of simple, gabled forms that are rectangular in plan. Unlike other second-generation Modernist architects who revisited the iconic European houses of the 1920s or the American shingle style of the nineteenth century, Jacobsen drew inspiration from the vernacular architecture of the American homestead. His grand yet intimately scaled pavilions recall the barns, detached kitchens, and smokehouses - the outbuildings - of rural America.
Jacobsen designed the “1998 Life Dream House", a promotion by the magazine in which famed architects designed homes for average Americans. This was the revival of a similar plan in the '30s to have Frank Lloyd Wright design an American home.
[edit] Resources
[edit] References
- ^ Contemporary Architects, Muriel Emanuel, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980. ISBN 0-312-16635-4.
[edit] External links
- Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect Official Website.
