http://casasugar.com/ Home sweet home. en http://casasugar.com/1629650 <p><a href="http://www.hughjacobsen.com/" target="_blank">Hugh Newell Jacobsen</a> is a prominent American architect best known for his modern pavilion-based residences, which are mostly simple, gabled structures, rectangular in plan. <span class="inline left"><img src="http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/6/61259/20_2008/arsl11_jacobsen.preview.jpg" alt="" title="" class="outline left image preview" height="465" width="310"></span>His projects have been built and published worldwide, and he's won 114 awards for excellence in design, six of which are National Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects and 20 from the professional journal Architectural Record. Jacobsen graduated from Yale’s School of Architecture in 1955, held an apprenticeship with Philip Johnson, and then opened a practice under his own name in 1958. In the 50 years since then, he has designed several large buildings, including the libraries for the American Colleges of Greece (Athens), Gettysburg College (Penn.), two museums for the Smithsonian in Washington, DC, the Renwick Gallery, the Arts and Industries Building, and an addition to the US Capitol, but his fort&#233; is residential architecture.<br class=clear-both /b> To hear about his design philosophy and see some of his projects, </p> <p><a href="http://casasugar.com/1629650">read more</a></p> http://casasugar.com/1629650#comment architect stories architecture hugh newell jacobsen Fri, 16 May 2008 13:00:39 -0700 casasugar http://casasugar.com/1629650