1998 Life Dream House #1, where sophisticated streamlined European Bauhaus flair meets 1800's Americana. ("God is in the details and less is more." -Ludwig Mies vander Rohe) This special home is located on Lake Lewisville in the Sunrise Bay subdivision. Built by Michael Holigan Homes and was showcased in the 1998 National Home Builders Association Show. Featured in many different magazines over the years and winner of many design merit awards.This home was designed and built in the vain of Frank Lloyd Wright's, Everyman's Home that Life promoted in its magazine around the early 1930's. ("Architecture is the reaching out for the truth." -Louis Kahn) The Life Dream Home 1998 #1 was designed and supervised by Hugh Newell Jacobsen. Hugh was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1929. Educated at the University of Maryland, he received a BA in 1951. He also attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Jacobsen then received his degree in Fine Arts from the University of Maryland and Masters in Architecture from Yale University in 1955 under the supervision of Louis Kahn. After finishing his formal education, Jacobsen worked in New Canaan, Connecticut, apprenticing to Philip Johnson in 1955. Subsequently he worked for Keyes, Lethbridge and Condon in Washington, D.C. (1957 to 1958). In 1958, Jacobsen opened his practice in Georgetown, Washington D.C. and has maintained a small, private practice there since. ("All architects want to live beyond their deaths"-Philip Johnson) The later work of Jacobsen is widely known for his modern pavilion-based residences, composed of simple gabled and rectangular forms in his plans. Unlike other second-generation Modernist architects who revisited the iconic European houses of the 1920s or the American shingle style of the nineteenth century, Jacobsen drew inspiration from the vernacular architecture of the American homestead. His large but intimately scaled pavilions recall the barns, detached kitchens, smokehouses and outbuildings of rural America. Jacobsen designed the 1998 winning home, that was promoted by Life Magazine.There was a contest where many famed architects designed homes plans that were judged by a panel of experts and the winning designs were one off created and featured in Life Magazine February 1998 and the plans were made publicly available. Life Dream House 1998 #1 was the most popular of the series of 5 homes and has since been replicated over 250+ times.The home captured the publics imagination at the time.There was even a scandal surrounding the homes original designer, were someone stole the homes design elements by rearranged them, then calling it his own design and winning a major award. ( "A house is a machine for living in and should be the treasure chest of living. By law, all buildings should be white. To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. Space and light and order, those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep." - La Corbusie) Hugh Jacobson is also famous for designingJacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Martha's Vineyard home in the early 1980s and many other private residences around the world for very wealthy clients. Jacobson recently completed the Weitzenhoffer Design & Engineering Wing of the University of Oklahoma and is involved in many other project. Hugh was also responsible for the restoration of the United States Capital building in Washington DC. Here is a link to Hugh Jacobsen's web site: http://www.hughjacobsen.com Only a few lucky souls will every have the chance to own a special home designed and supervised by the United States premier Architect, Hugh Newell Jacobson. The Life Dream Home 1998 #1 is destined is to be a coveted classic and a perfect investment for the future. ("It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand."-Hugh Newell Jacobsen)
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