Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Hugh Newell Jacobsen

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen was an American architect. He was noted for designing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' home in Martha's Vineyard during the 1980s. He also restored part of the U.S. Embassy in Paris, as well as Spaso House in Moscow.

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When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen