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Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect

Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect( )
Editor: Vignelli, Massimo
Photographer: Lautman, Robert
Introduction by: Scully, Vincent
Text by: Green, Kevin W.
Author: Jacobson, Hugh Newell
ISBN:978-1-920744-13-7
Publication Date:Aug 2006
Publisher:Images Publishing Group
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $99.99
Book Description:

Hugh Newell Jacobsen set up an independent practice in Washington, DC over forty years ago. Since then, he has become one of America's finest architects and his projects have been built and published worldwide, earning him numerous national and international design awards. First published in 1988 by the AIA Press, this current edition has been printed on high quality art paper with enhanced imagery.

Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers
House & Home / House Plans
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):24.206 x 31.699 x 3.15 cm
Book Weight:2.214 Kilograms
Author Biography
Jacobson, Hugh Newell (Editor)
Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on August 21, 1920. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Yale University. During World War II, he served in the Marine Corps. He received a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University in 1949. His thesis, The Shingle Style: Architectural Theory and Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright, was published as a book in 1955. He taught at Yale from 1947 until 2009.

He wrote several books during his lifetime including American Architecture and Urbanism; The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture; Pueblo: Mountain, Village, Dance; Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade; and Yale in New Haven: Architecture and Urbanism. He received the National Medal of Arts in 2004. He died from complications of Parkinson's disease on November 30, 2017 at the age of 97.

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