He also designed the west terrace addition of the Capitol and the Moscow residence of the United States ambassador to Russia. Mr. Jacobsen was an unabashed fan of Washington, where he first lived as a teenager during World War II when his father, John, was an official of the War Shipping Administration. “This city has wonderful colonnaded spaces that no one ever gets to see,” he told The New York Times in 1984. “I always could draw, rather well, and painting I really loved to do,” Mr. Jacobsen told his son John in an interview in 2010 for “The Artist Toolbox,” a public television series. Mr. Jacobsen agreed and earned a certificate from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1954 and a master’s degree from Yale University, where he studied under the influential Louis Kahn, a year later.

Source: International New York Times March 21, 2021 20:37 UTC