Throughout his career as an architect and educator, Phillip Jacobson has
also continually engaged in another realm of design: furniture, lighting
fixtures, jewelry, and home accessories. He has designed in this applied
arena for commercial production and for friends and family. This "other"
realm of design, evidenced by Jacobson's use of timeless structural and
formal concepts, has been an exciting exploration for the artist and is
the subject of this book.
Phillip Jacobson has practiced architecture in Seattle for forty years.
He was a partner in and for twenty years design director of TRA, a large
multidisciplinary firm renowned for deft and effective design of large
architectural and urban projects, both domestic and international. He is
professor emeritus at the University of Washington, where he taught for
nearly four decades in the Departments of Architecture and Urban Design
and Planning. He has held visiting appointments at the Tokyo Institute
of Technology, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and the University of Sydney in
Australia. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a
recipient of the AIA Seattle Chapter medal for distinguished lifetime
achievement.