Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Jacobsen was born on March 11, 1929, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Lucy Ellen (Newell) and John Edwall Jacobsen. His father was initially employed as a meat importer and later worked for the War Shipping Administration during World War II. Consequently, the Jacobsen family moved to Washington, D.C., and he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947. Jacobsen went on to study fine arts at the University of Maryland, obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1951. Although he originally intended to become a portrait painter, his father advised him to go into architecture for its job security. Subsequently, he undertook postgraduate studies at Yale University, earning a Master of Architecture in 1955. After completing his formal education, Jacobsen briefly worked in New Canaan, Connecticut, apprenticing to Philip Johnson in 1955. Subsequently, he worked for Keyes, Lethbridge & Condon in Washington, D.C., from 1957 to 1958, and was also taught by Louis Kahn. Jacobsen opened his eponymous Georgetown architectural firm in 1958. ==Career==

(the Netherlands) Jacobsen was widely known for his modern pavilion-based residences—composed of simple, gabled forms, 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 large but intimately scaled pavilions recall the barns, detached kitchens, and smokehouses—the outbuildings—of rural America. Jacobsen designed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' home in Martha's Vineyard, which was completed in 1981. He was one of a small number of architects chosen in 1998 to participate in designed the Dream House series. He ended up selling over 900,000 plans, and the houses built from them were constructed in countries such as Argentina, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. ==Personal life==

Jacobsen was married to Ruth "Robin" Kearney until her death in 2010. Together, they had three children: John, Matthew, and Simon. He had dyslexia. ==References==