After studying under the great Louis Kahn at Yale University and apprenticing under Philip Johnson, Hugh Newell Jacobsen began his own private practice in 1958 in Washington, D.C.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen designed the “1998 Life Dream House," a promotion by Life Magazine where famed architects designed homes and plans that were made publicly available. Lending his archetypal and indelibly seminal blueprint to the Dream House project, Jacobsen's "H-style" design grew in high demand among families yearning for the American Dream - through the perfect and affordable home.
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