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Georgetown Architect Makes Architectural Digest Top 100

  • December 9th 2011

by Shilpi Paul

Georgetown Architect Makes Architectural Digest Top 100: Figure 1
Photo by Robert C. Lautman, courtesy of Architectural Digest

This week, Jacobsen Architecture, a Georgetown-based firm headed by modernist Hugh Jacobsen, was named to Architectural Digest’s Top 100 Talents in Architecture and Interior Design.

Jacobsen designs slightly surrealistic homes inspired by traditional shapes. The exteriors often look like children’s drawings of houses or barns: starkly outlined boxes with triangles on top. With interiors devoid of any moldings and trim, the clean lines of the layouts are generally white on white.

Georgetown Architect Makes Architectural Digest Top 100: Figure 2
A Jacobsen home in Georgetown

Georgetown Architect Makes Architectural Digest Top 100: Figure 3
Kitchen

Jacobsen has lived in DC since 1958 and has designed and updated hundreds of homes around the District, as well as renovating the Renwick Gallery and designing an addition to the U.S. Capitol Building.

Georgetown Architect Makes Architectural Digest Top 100: Figure 4
A Jacobsen home on the Eastern Shore

This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/georgetown_architect_makes_architectural_digest_top_100/4740.

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