Jakob + MacFarlane

Jakob + MacFarlane is a French architecture firm founded in 1998 by Dominique Jakob and Brendan MacFarlane.[1][2] It is headquartered in Paris.[3]

The Orange Cube
Cité de la mode et du design
FRAC Centre

History

Dominique Jakob was born on 26 August 1966 in Paris, France.[1] She studied at École d’architecture de Paris-Villemin (now known as École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Val de Seine) and graduated in 1991.[3][2][4]

Brendan MacFarlane was born on 13 September 1961 in Christchurch, New Zealand.[1] He graduated from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 1984 and from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University in 1990.[2][3]

The pair met while working for the Los Angeles-based firm Morphosis Architects led by Thom Mayne, who would later win the Pritzker Prize in 2005.[2][5] In 1998 they founded Jakob + MacFarlane in Paris. In January 2001, they were one of 25 mostly-young architecture firms selected to participate in the first exhibition of architecture facilitated by computer-aided design.[6] Later in 2001, The Guardian noted their design of a restaurant atop the Centre Pompidou, for which the pair "beat Philippe Starck in the design competition", with a design likened to "the Bilbao Guggenheim, only rounder and shrunk".[7]

In 2002, following the destruction of the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks the previous year, the firm proposed that the site be "turned into a new World Peace Center, dominated by sinuous red and green towers that curve into the sky like twisting blades of grass".[8] The pair later criticized the conduct of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition held to select a design for the rebuilding of the site, saying that "architects from around the world never really got what was at stake at Ground Zero", with proposals failing to focus on the improving the lives of people, and that "our profession gave the worst kind of response.[9]

In 2007, the firm won the Globe de Cristal Award for best architect.[10] In 2019, Jakob herself won the "Woman Architect Prize".[11] The pair have also lectured as visiting professors in various European architecture programs.[3]

Significant projects

Significant projects include:[4][12][13]

Exhibitions

References
  1. "Jakob + MacFarlane". Centre Pompidou (in French). Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  2. "Brendan MacFarlane (Jakob + MacFarlane)". Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  3. Daniel Pavlovits and Joe Boschetti, Interiors Now (Images Publishing Group, 2004), p. 292.
  4. "Femmes Architectes - Dominique JAKOB". Femmes Architectes (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  5. "Jakob + MacFarlane". www.frac-centre.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  6. Patricia Lowry, "Digital by design: Architecture exhibit sketches out trends in the computer age", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (January 27, 2001), p. C-7.
  7. "Do you want to meet me at...? Georges", The Guardian (April 5, 2001), p. SPACE-4.
  8. Stevenson Swanson, "Setting sights on change: Architects plan new future for World Trade Center site", Chicago Tribune (February 6, 2002), Section 5, p. 3.
  9. Sam Lubell, "9/11 healing is slow and so is rebuilding", The Sacramento Bee (September 12, 2004), p. E1, E23.
  10. "Palmarès 2007". LES GLOBES - Les prix de l'Art et La Culture (in French). Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  11. "Femmes Architectes – Remise des prix des femmes architectes de l'Arvha". Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  12. "Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane". www.archi-guide.com. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  13. "Jakob + MacFarlane, à la confluence du talent et de l'audace". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  14. Ryan, Raymund (28 April 2011). "The Orange Cube by Jakob + MacFarlane, Lyon, France". The Architecture Review. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  15. "Wanderlust, Cité de la mode et du design". e-Architect. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  16. "Jakob+MacFarlane, Docks en Seine - cite de la mode et du design". Floornature. 29 May 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  17. Texier, Simon (2012). Paris- Panorama de l'architecture. Parigramme. pp. 178–179. ISBN 978-2-84096-667-8.
  18. "When Culture Meets Architecture". Retrieved April 27, 2020.
  19. Sam Lubell, "Culture outside Paris", The Los Angeles Times (March 8, 2015), p. L9.
  20. "The Turbulences FRAC Centre / Jakob + Macfarlane Architects". ArchDaily. 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  21. McGuire, Penny (29 September 2011). "Restaurant At The Pompidou Centre, Jakob + MacFarlane (Paris, France)". Architectural Review. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  22. "venice architecture biennale 08: jakob + macfarlane". designboom - architecture & design magazine. 2008-09-29. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  23. "Jakob+Macfarlane lèvent le voile" (in French). 2014-05-26. Retrieved 2020-04-27.
  24. "jakob + macfarlane explain architecture with augmented reality at aedes berlin". designboom - architecture & design magazine. 2017-04-14. Retrieved 2020-04-27.

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