2024/2025

Simon Jacobsen and Jacobsen Architecture has been inducted into Forbes Magazine’s “Forbes 200-America’s Top Residential Architects.”
From the Editor
Founded by the celebrated architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen in 1960, Jacobsen Architecture is the successor firm led by the son, Simon Jacobsen, and headquartered in the heart of Virginia's horse country, but its influence extends far and wide. There aren't many firms on this list that count the U.S. Capitol or a Parisian hotel or the Smithsonian among its notable works, mixed in with the needs of discerning residential clients or the vanguard of American universities. Can there be a unified philosophy for this sort of firm, working at so many different scales and for different ends? Jacobsen's team thinks so—and it has to do with architecture being the measure of its parts. The Bray House, Jacobsen's Featured Project, is a notable example of pavilion-like forms assembled in an unforgettable conversation between an old and new.

4/20/24

Simon Jacobsen will be speaking at The National Building Museum’s “The Big Draw” lecture series.

Time: 2:00pm

Main auditorium.

FREE Admission.

National Building Museum

401 F Street NW
Washington, DC 20001
info@nbm.org
202.272.2448

10/2/23

Richmond, Virginia.

Jacobsen will be speaking and signing his new book at The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University. Reception to follow.

Time: 12:30 PM. For more information, contact the museum at https://icavcu.org/.

07/2023

Jacobsen to be on Awards Jury.

Simon Jacobsen will be a judge in the Architecture Category for the annual Home & Design Awards. The winners of both Grand and Merit awards will be showcased in the 2024 Idea Book, which stays on newsstands for a full year, and announced at a festive celebration in Fall 2023. Deadline for entries is June 1, 2023.

Lecture and book signing with Simon Jacobsen

Join Simon Jacobsen, founding partner of Jacobsen Architecture, LLC, for a look at the last years and legacy of his father Hugh Newell Jacobsen, FAIA (1929–2021), their collaboration over the past 20 years, and his eventual succession as Principal and owner of the firm.
Jacobsen’s new 224-page book, American Modern Home, will be on hand for purchasing before the talk and signing afterward. The book, an expression of eloquent design featuring interiors, exteriors, and gardens, examines twelve of the firm’s recent houses around the United States.

02/16/2023

“Hugh Newell Jacobsen and The Reluctant Path Forward.”

District Architecture Center

421 7th Street NW

Washington, DC 20004

6:00PM-8:00PM

Price: $25 for Non-Members

$15 for Members

$10 for Students

Registration required-CLICK HERE

For more info

please CLICK HERE

11/20/22

Book signing event at the Jacobsen designed Boxwood Winery.

Join the firm in celebrating the new book and have any number of fine varieties of Boxwood’s inventory of award winning estate grown wines. Simon Jacobsen has just completed “American Modern Home” published by Rizzoli and will be selling signed copies of the new book.

Sunday Nov. 20th

Boxwood Winery

Middleburg, Virginia.

12:00pm-2:30pm

RSVP

events@jacobsenarchitecture.com

11/12/22

Book signing and talk.

Peter Miller Books

Post Alley, 304 Alaskan Way South, Seattle.

Time: TBA

Join Simon Jacobsen in Seattle at Peter Miller Books for the debut of his new book “American Modern Home.” Mr. Jacobsen will be signing books and giving a brief talk about the collaborative work with his father, the late Hugh Newell Jacobsen. For further information call Peter Miller Books at (206) 441-4114 or write Books@jacobsenarchitecture.com.

10-26-22

Simon Jacobsen’s “American Modern Home” ranks #1 on Amazon.com in the Residential Architecture category.

10/25/2022

Simon Jacobsen’s new book on the firm’s recent work “American Modern Home” lands in stores October 25th.

Readers who wish to purchase a personalized or signed copy may now do so through the Jacobsen Architecture website by clicking here…

9/2022

Simon Jacobsen designs a mirrored pavilion for his father’s final resting place.

One hour West of Washington, D.C. in the enclave of Delaplane, Virginia, lay the final resting place of Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Architect. The mirrored pavilion was designed and constructed using many of Hugh Jacobsen’s unique details and methods. Clad in single pieces of Low-E Starphire mirrors, it is traditionally framed, like many of his houses, in 2x4 and 2x6 framing and plywood sheathing. Inside, Hugh’s ashes sit contained on a stainless steel and bluestone plinth.

The proportions of the little pavilion are those of significance to the Great Man himself: It is 6’-0” wide (His height), it is 3’-11” deep (his birthday) and it faces Michigan and Washington at each gable.

The mirrored mausoleum resides on the estate of his son and business partner.

12/2022

At long last Hugh Jacobsen’s memorial is being planned. The venue will be at The National Building Museum in Washington. With the recurring nemesis of COVID, plans were made and then hastily cancelled.

Date: TBA

Where: National Building Museum

2022

May 12, 6:00PM

Taste for Design, Spyhouse, Secret Ingredients

Gaggenau dinner and discussion

Métier Restaurant

1015 7th St NW, Washington, DC

Simon Jacobsen will be on the panel discussion sponsored by Gaggenau, Home & Design and Michelin and will be discussing his recent project Spy House, the clever use of Gaggenau appliances and his upcoming book. The event will be at the Michelin starred Métier Restaurant and Chef Eric Ziebold and Joan Dempsey will also be present.

Release date: September 20, 2022.

“American Modern Home” by Simon Jacobsen.

12 recent houses by the internationally acclaimed architecture and interior design firm Jacobsen Architecture. Guided by Hugh Newell Jacobsen and his son, Simon, the firm distills vernacular building types into designs that feel grounded in history yet are fervently forward-thinking.

Fall 21/Spring 21

$75

11 x 11

224 pages

Hardcover with jacket

225 photographs

Pre-order yours at Amazon by clicking here…

December 2021

Dempsey+Less+blue-231-1.jpg — Gaggenau Appliances

…to spotlight the Spy House kitchen in new ad campaign. Demonstrations, interviews with owners and architects.

March 6th, 2021

Hugh Newell Jacobsen, one of the firm’s founders, has died.

New York Times Obituary here

2020

Simon Jacobsen was interviewed by Thom Filicia (Style Network and HGTV’s “Queer Eye for The Straight Guy” and Bravo’s “Get A Room with Carson & Thom”) on his Instagram show “House Calls with Thom Filicia” Much was discussed from process of designing and his current projects. Click on the image to start. — Simon Jacobsen was interviewed by Thom Filicia (Style Network and HGTV’s “Queer Eye for The Straight Guy” and Bravo’s “Get A Room with Carson & Thom”) on his Instagram show “House Calls with Thom Filicia” Much was discussed from process of designing and his current projects. Click on the image to start.

Simon Jacobsen was interviewed by Thom Filicia (Style Network and HGTV’s “Queer Eye for The Straight Guy” and Bravo’s “Get A Room with Carson & Thom”) on his Instagram show “House Calls with Thom Filicia” Much was discussed from process of designing and his current projects. You can view the show here: House Calls.

2020

“Jacobsen Architecture Named Best Beach House Architect in Washington, DC” by Home Builders Digest.

2020

Award

“Architecture Award” for Bray House by The American Institute of Architects-Washington Chapter.

2020

Award

Jacobsen Architecture wins Best of Houzz Design 2020.

SPEAKING EVENT:
Simon Jacobsen will be discussing the firm’s latest work and pending book at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland.
Mr. Jacobsen will be showing stunning new images of the firm’s latest works and discussing their pending book “13 Houses” to be published by Rizzoli.
Date: November 16, 2019.
Time: 4PM
Tickets: $24 members, $29 for non-members.
Click HERE for tickets!

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Simon Jacobsen will be a juror for the AIA Chicago’s Design Excellence Awards program July 25th, 2019.

Part II of Andrea Koppel’s interview with Simon Jacobsen about how to break into the business of architecture.

Click here for the interview

Screen Shot 2019-11-04 at 11.05.26 AM.png — Jacobsen Architecture, LLC wishes to welcome Anna Karewicz, RA LEED AP to the firm as Project Architect.

Screen Shot 2018-12-12 at 11.20.31 AM.png — Hugh and Simon Jacobsen are delighted to be held in such high regard by Architectural Digest in their 2019 listing of The “AD100”. Jacobsen Architecture is one of the longest running recipients of this prestigious award.

Andrea Koppel spoke to Simon Jacobsen on her podcast Time4coffee. The podcast is aimed at younger people who are seeking tips and guidance on launching a career and the two discussed the life in architecture and what Jacobsen does day to day running an international practice. Other topics include Hugh Newell Jacobsen, design and challenges in a high octane creative environment. The enlightening and entertaining interview can be found below…

Click here for the interview

Screen Shot 2018-11-28 at 3.51.02 PM.png — SPEAKING EVENT:
Simon Jacobsen will be speaking
in St. Michaels, Maryland.
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DATE AND TIME
Sat, January 19, 2019
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM .
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St. Michaels Inn
1228 South Talbot Street
Saint Michaels, MD.
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1.5 AIA L.U. credits will be issued for architects.
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The Talbot Spy: A Project Fund of the Mid-Shore Community Foundation .
Tickets can be purchased below…

Buy tickets

JACOBSEN ARCHITECTURE WINS 2018 American Institute of Architects-Washington Chapter Merit Award in Interior Architecture for “Spy House.”

Screen Shot 2018-04-05 at 3.34.11 PM.png — James Garner's house by Hugh Jacobsen is for sale...Click here.

January 25, 2018
Simon Jacobsen will be speaking to students and faculty at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.
Time 12:15pm

Rizzoli 54.jpg — Jacobsen Book IV in development...

The firm is wrapping up and shooting the remaining projects that will be the fourth book on the firm's latest work entitled "Jacobsen Architecture, 2007-2018".
The monograph will consist of 15 projects from Florida, Maine, Martha's Vineyard, Washington, Virginia, New York, Colorado, Nantucket, Vermont and Pennsylvania.

Screen Shot 2017-10-19 at 2.24.37 PM.png — A quote from Hugh Jacobsen in the Times Record:

"Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen once wrote, “Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable in everybody. You never have to ask why.”

The article is actually about gardening...see it here.

Appointments: Greg Thomas, AIA Senior Project Architect
and
Lindsay Clark, Interior Design Coordinator.

The Washington Post writes a nice story about Hugh Newell Jacobsen returning to the first house he ever designed.

Click here for the article.

Screen Shot 2017-10-19 at 11.17.15 AM.png — 3-16-17
Simon Jacobsen will be speaking at the Architectural Digest Design Show.

Pier 94, 55th Street and 12th Avenue, New York City.Time and specific location : TBA

Architectural Digest publishes a small country cottage by Simon Jacobsen.

Click here to read the article...

From Architectural Digest August 5, 2016

“Minimalism in architecture is a movement. Maximalism is a lifestyle of living in an unimprovable space that can’t be altered structurally so one must overwhelm the senses with objects, pillows, and color. True minimalism uses the refinement of materials and the poetry of intersecting planes with the relationship of objects and their proximity to each other. Maximalism is hedonistic and bohemian in its message. If you can’t hide it, paint it red.” —Simon Townsend Jacobsen of Jacobsen Architecture
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/designers-debate-maximalist-minimalist-homes

Dream house shot.png — The Hugh Newell Jacobsen Dream House 2.0 is ready and taking orders.

Contact The Herring Bay Holding Company to place your order.
Website:
www.dreamhouseplans.biz
Email:
support@dreamhouseplans.biz

Screen Shot 2017-10-19 at 2.42.42 PM.png — Out in April 2016:
Jacobsen Architecture will be featured in H&D's book "100 Top Designers".

The Wall Street Journal writes about a Simon Jacobsen project in Maine that renovates and encapsulates one of America's oldest houses.

"Rediscovering the Campus-Style Family Home
"For Bray House, managing design partner Simon Jacobsen envisioned a series of minimalist white pavilions that he felt would fit into the architecture of New England. Set back slightly behind the original house, he said, the single-level structures would also ensure that Bray House, believed to have been built in 1662, would remain “the belle of the ball..."

Read it here...

Best of Houzz 2016 - Green Architect.jpg — JA wins Best of Houzz" award for 2016.
32 Million subscribers voted us as their favorite design firm.

Architectural Digest's 2016 AD100 selection of The Jacobsens can be seen here...

Feature in new publication

September 9, 2012

Simon Jacobsen's house will be featured in a new book by Ron Broadhurst called The New Urban House.

Upgrade

August 20, 2012

Jacobsen Architecture upgrades its CAD platform to ArchiCAD 16 and the Building Information Management system.

Vanished Washington

August 16, 2012

Jacobsen Architecture's highly acclaimed Vanished Washington (aka The Ruined Capitol) website that documents lost buildings in Washington, DC will surpass 100,000 followers by mid-August.

Interview

July 26, 2012

Simon Jacobsen is interviewed about The National Capital Planning Commission's plans to transform parts of southwest Washington into a collection of technical 'super blocks.'

Architectural Digest

April 12, 2012

Simon Jacobsen discusses Malaparte in April's Issue of Architectural Digest.

New Magazine Publication

February 28, 2012

Washington Life Magazine has published an article about the work of Simon Jacobsen.

Follow this link to read the article.

Radio Broadcast

February 22, 2012

Simon Jacobsen will be on WTOP Radio.

Award of Excellence

February 10, 2012

Jacobsen Architecture is awarded the 2012 Award of Excellence for The N Street Trust Georgetown, Washington, DC by Home & Design Magazine.

New team member

February 7, 2012

Jacobsen Architecture would like to welcome Allison Wood to the firm as Executive Assistant

to the Jacobsens.

Blog Review

January 16, 2012

The Economist writes that The Ruined Capitol is"..an amazing architectural blog..." in today's Democracy in America column.

Promotion

January 16, 2012

Architect Heidi Leinbach has been appointed Chief of Staff of Jacobsen Architecture LLC

AD100

December 15, 2011

Jacobsen Architecture makes the list in this year's Architectural Digest AD100.

Simon Jacobsen made the list!!

November 29, 2011

Simon Jacobsen has been listed in Architectural Digest's AD10, the magazine's index of the best architects and designers in the world.

Recently published interview with Hugh Jacobsen

November 28, 2011

Modern Magazine interviews Hugh Jacobsen in the Winter 2012 edition out now.

American University of Cairo Library amidst the chaos!

November 25, 2011

Hugh Jacobsen's 1977 American University of Cairo Library is smack in the middle of the Egyptian uprising in Tahir Square.

Article in the WSJ

November 20, 2011

The Wall Street Journal does a piece on Hugh Newell Jacobsen and the 1998 Life Magazine Dream House that was recently built. LINK

New team member

November 20, 2011

The firm would like to welcome Kate Ballou as our new Interior Design Coordinator.

Jacobsen projects in newly published book

November 10, 2011

Three Jacobsen projects are in the new book 'Brilliant White' by Linda O'Keeffe. The book may be purchased at an online retailer HERE.

Speaking Engagement

October 21, 2011

Hugh Newell Jacobsen will be speaking at the Dacor House.

1801 F Street, NW on October 21st at 12:15pm.

Blog Launch

October 20, 2011

Simon Jacobsen and Jacobsen Architecture launch the blog "The Ruined Capitol: an architectural eulogy of what was Washington, DC". LINK