The architecture and design of Hugh Newell Jacobsen and Simon
 

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Selected articles and media:

 

Washington Life Magazine: An article about the work of Simon Jacobsen.

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Brazil's CASA Vogue publishes the Alster Frazer Residence

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HGTV does a bit on the Alster Residence.

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CBS's 60 Minutes: Steve Kroft interviews Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens in a new Simon Jacobsen apartment in Washington, DC.

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Architectural Digest

"Simon and Hugh Newell Jacobsen give a historic Washington, D.C., residence a critical restoration—and a generous helping of space and light."

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"Smart Home Style"
Design Bureau magazine does a quirky piece on the firm and the amount of technology that goes into the projects. Link

Architectural Digest

IN WASHINGTON, D.C.’S GEORGETOWN,

A HARMONIOUS MERGER OF TWO 1863 ROW HOUSES

9/09

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Architectural Digest

"Learn Their Secrets-Simon Jacobsen"

9/09

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Architectural Digest

"Nantucket Reexamined"

pdf. 11 megs 7.04

 

The Washington Post

"Discovering Meaning In Modern
Lessons From Life in Houses That Stand Out Among the Colonials".

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DC Modern LuxuryMagazine

"An Enoteca Techs Up"

The Tasting Rooms and The Boxwood Winery".

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Pillow Mint featuring

Simon Jacobsen and Jacobsen

Architecture.

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2008 Washington Spaces Design Competition

Best of Remodeling Award

The Adams-Straub Residence, Washington, DC

by Simon Jacobsen.

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Capitol File Magazine

Simon & Ruth Jacobsen and

The Georgetown House Tour.

PDF

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

A funny piece shot in the Jacobsen

clinic with Dr. Tina Alster LINK.

The New York Times

The New Political Fixer: The Skin Doctor

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DC Luxury Magazine

House Proud

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Th Washington Post

"Tackling A Legacy..."

The Boxwood Winery

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An architectural review of the Boxwood Winery

by ArchiDose. They refer to Simon as "Samuel".

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The Georgetowner

Hugh and Simon Jacobsen

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DC Luxury Magazine

Apres Peau and The Washington

Institute for Dermatologic Laser Surgery

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Washington Spaces Magazine

Watergate Apartment

"Exxon Provence"

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The Washington Post

"Turning Tables in the Dining Room"

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The Washington Post

"Gifts That Skip the Kitch"

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7/26/12

Simon Jacobsen is interviewed in "Roll Call" concerning The National Capital Planning
Commission's plans to transform parts of
Southwest Washington into a collection of
technical 'super blocks.'


4/12

Simon Jacobsen discusses Malaparte in April's Architectural Digest.


9/22/11

Lecture

Connecticut AIA


Time: 5:30 PM
Location: Cooperative Arts and Humanities School, 177 College Street, New Haven, CT


10/28/2010

Lecture


Time : 2:00 PM

"The Process and Patience"
Simon Jacobsen will speak at the Miromar Design Center

in Estro, Florida.

RSVP 239-390-8207

Click here for invite

www.miromardesigncenter.com


3/28/11

Manner of Man Magazine

Interview

Link

2/2011


Architectural Digest

"Simon and Hugh Newell Jacobsen give a historic Washington, D.C., residence a critical restoration—and a generous helping of space and light.

 

11/2010

S. Jacobsen house will be featured in Design Bureau magazine.

4/10-5/14

AIA/DC Award For Excellence in Architecture for the Simon Jacobsen Residence from the American Institute of Architects Washington Chapter and Washingtonian Magazine. Awards ceremony to be held at the Embassy of Denmark Friday, May 14, 2010.

11/09

Simon Jacobsen will be featured in the October/December issue of DC Modern Luxury Magazine for the Tasting Rooms and The Boxwood Winery.

10/09

Simon Jacobsen will be featured in the August/October issue of DC Modern Luxury Magazine.

9/09

Simon Jacobsen's residence will be featured in the 2009 September issue of Architectural Digest.

4/26/2008

Simon Jacobsen's new residence will be featured

on the 2008 Georgetown House Tour. Contact Gtownhousetour@aol.com for more information.

2/28/08
The Modernist Society
presents "A conversation with Simon Jacobsen." Bourbon 9:00 PM.

2321 18th Street NW, WDC/202.232.0800

Click here for invite.

4/10/07
Simon Jacobsen will be discussing the firm's new work and direction at The American Institute of Architects -Toledo Chapter.

6PM  at the Toledo Museum of Art, The Glass Pavilion.


Simon Jacobsen is an award winning designer and the managing design partner of the firm who oversees corroboratively and independently on projects in North America, Europe and the Caribbean. Most recent projects include his own newly completed house (Architectural Digest, winner AIA/DC Washingtonian award) The Boxwood Winery in Middelburg, VA (Winner 2007 AIA Merit Award),The N Street Trust (AIA/DC award winner for excellence and Architectural Digest July 2011) The Adams Residence in Washington (The Washington Post "Turning Tables in the Dining Room"), Apres Peau, The Washington Institute for Dermatologic Laser Surgery and numerous residences throughout Washington and the United States.

Simon Jacobsen has been with the company professionally for 17 years, but has worked for the firm off and on since he was 13. Before returning to Washington from graduate school, he interned for Nagle-Hartray Architects in Chicago.


Jacobsen supervises 10 architects and support staff and is involved in every firm project. He has a BA from Bradford College and earned a masters degree in Architecture from The Chicago School of Architecture (UIC). He serves as a visiting academic critic to the School of Architecture of The Catholic University with architect Suzane Reatig and has served as a juror for the AIA Michigan Honor Awards and the AIA Connecticut Honor Awards programs.

Jacobsen lectures about his work when time permits has been the keynote speaker at the Miromar Design Center in Estro, Florida, AIA Toledo, AIA Connecticut and The Modernist Society.

In 2011, Jacobsen was inducted to Architectural Digest's "AD100", that publications list of the best architects and interior designers in the world.

Simon Jacobsen's work is widely published in magazines such as Architectural Digest, Casa VOGUE, The Washington Post, Washingtonian Magazine, DC Modern Luxury,Design Bureau Magazine, HGTV, Entra Magazine and dozens of other internet publications and design blogs. Simon Jacobsen's Georgetown residence will be featured in Ron Broadhurst's The New Urban House and will be published by Rizzoli in the summer of 2012.

S. Jacobsen was the Chairman of the 2006 CAUSE Gala; an organization that helps raise money and support material for U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also served as the co-chair of The American Museum in Britain annual gala with designer John Irlan, and has been evolved in numerous causes and foundations around the Washington area such as The Children's Hearing & Speech Center and the Tudor Place Foundation.

Jacobsen is also the editor of the blog "Vanished Washington-an architectural eulogy of what was Washington, D.C." which documents the architectural purge of some of Washington's most elegant buildings and neighborhoods from 1940 to the 1980's.

 

The Modernist Society lecture             (Credit: My Life As A Contact Sheet)

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