Jaquelin T. Robertson

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Jaquelin Taylor Robertson,

New Classical Architecture
.

Early life and education

Robertson was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia on a classical family-owned estate.

Rhodes Scholar, Robertson received a Master of Architecture degree from Yale School of Architecture
in 1961.

Career

Working in New York City Planning, he was the founder of the New York City Urban Design Group,[3] the first Director of the Mayor's Office of Midtown Planning and Development, and a City Planning Commissioner.

In 1975, he spent three years in

Tehran, Iran, directing the planning and design of the country's new capitol center Shahestan Pahlavi[4] in the Abbas Abad
district of Tehran.

From 1980 to 1988, Robertson was Dean of the University of Virginia School of Architecture where there is now an Endowed Professorship in his name entitled the "Jaquelin T. Robertson Visiting Professorship in Architecture." At UVA, Robertson often invited notable guest speakers and organized a famous symposium with 25 of the nation's leading architects, including Robert A. M. Stern and Léon Krier, that resulted in the publication of a book entitled The Charlottesville Tapes. During this same period (1980 to 1987), he was partnered with Peter Eisenman in the firm Eisenman/Robertson Architects in New York City.

In 1988, he stepped down from the

Cooper, Robertson & Partners
.

His notable work includes the New Albany Country Club in

Culver City
, California, and numerous private residences.

Having designed many AIA (American Institute of Architects) award-winning houses, many of which are in the Hamptons on the East End of Long Island and in the Caribbean, Robertson was named one of "the AD 100," Architectural Digest's list of the top 100 architects and interior designers whose work has been published by Architectural Digest over the years.

Robertson was both a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects[5] and a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Robertson died of Alzheimer's disease in East Hampton, New York, in May 2020.[6]

Career awards

Quotes

  • "The symbolic hard currency of architecture is classical,... It's gold in the bank. The other stuff is leveraged buy-outs and soybean futures." [7]
  • “We [architects] don’t seem to understand very well yet how our society works or what our people want or need, and we are continually caught up in a kind of Alice-in-Wonderland situation of either giving answers to questions no one is asking or ignoring completely some of the more pressing and obvious problems.”[1]
  • “Architects must have in front of them some notion about the order of the whole, not just the parts.”[1]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  2. ^ O'Connell, Kim A. "Jaquelin T. Robertson: Going to Ground". Traditional Building. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  3. ^ Hines, Thomas S. (19 March 1995). "A Star Is Built". Retrieved 25 March 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "Archnet". Retrieved 25 March 2017.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ [1][permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Jaquelin Taylor Robertson, Architect and Passionate Urbanist, Dies at 88, NYT, May 11, 2020
  7. ^ Miller, Arthur. "Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield-Taylor's "Bluff's Edge"". June 12, 1996. Lake Forest College. Retrieved 9 April 2014.

External links

Further reading

  1. ^ [2]
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