Jonathan Woolf
Jonathan Woolf (13 February 19614 September 2015) was a British architect.
Jonathan Woolf
- Name
- Jonathan Woolf
- Born
- 13 February 1961
- Birthplace
- Golders Green, London, England
- Died
- 4 September 2015
- Education
- Kingston Polytechnic
- Spouse
- Siobhan Woolf
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- architect
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Jonathan Woolf • Born — 13 February 1961 • Birthplace — Golders Green, London, England • Died — 4 September 2015 • Education — Kingston Polytechnic • Spouse — Siobhan Woolf • Children — 2 • Practice — Jonathan Woolf Architects Jonathan Woolf (13 February 19614 September 2015) was a British architect.
Early life
Early life
He was born in London and educated at Kingston School of Architecture at Kingston University before apprenticing at practices in Rome and later in London, where he was project architect for the house of art collector Charles Saatchi.
Jonathan Woolf Architects
Jonathan Woolf Architects
• Illustration — Brick Leaf House, South-East facade. In 1991 he established his own practice. In 2003 the practice completed Brick Leaf House in Hampstead, North London, which received a RIBA Award and a Civic Trust Award, and became the first private building to reach the mid-list of the UK Stirling Prize. Building Design hailed Brick Leaf House as "a statement of real capacity" and in 2004 honoured the practice with the Building Design Architect of the Year Award. Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud chose Brick Leaf House as one of his "twenty perfect houses."
Recognition
Recognition
• Illustration — Brick Leaf House - Pool • Illustration — Stockholm City Library Competition - Interior view. Received an Honorary mention and 7th place of the international competition to extend Eric Gunnar Asplund’s Library • Illustration — Monkey Puzzle Pavilion The practice won international competitions in Milan for furniture and in Dublin for urban regeneration and in 2007 received an Honorary mention and 7th place amongst the 1,170 entries of the international competition to extend Eric Gunnar Asplund’s 1930s Stockholm City Library. His Brick Leaf House (Double House) received RIBA and Civic Trust Awards in 2004.
Notable projects
Notable projects
• Ijaz Apartment, London, 1991 • The Lion Rooms, London, 1993 • Ziggurat Studio, London, 1993 & 1998 • Pocket House, London, 1998 • Brick Leaf House, Hampstead, London, 2003; • Mayfair Offices, London, 2006 • Two Mayfair Penthouses, London, 2007 • Monkey Puzzle Pavilion, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007 • Bloomsbury Apartments, London, 2008 • Painted House, London, 2009 • Lost Villa, 2014
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Ijaz spartment, London • Illustration — The Lion Rooms, London • Illustration — Pocket House, London • Illustration — Brick Leaf House, London • Illustration — Mayfair Offices, London • Illustration — Monkey Puzzle Pavilion, Aberdeen • Illustration — Stockholm City Library competition, Stockholm • Illustration — Painted House, London
Monographs
Monographs
• De Aedibus International 4, Jonathan Woolf Architects, Quart Verlag, Luzern, Switzerland, 2010, 62 pages • Ordinary Works, Exhibition Catalogue, London, UK, 2010, 21 pages • Darco Magazine 12, Darco Editions, Matosinhos, Portugal, 2010; ISSN 1646-950X, 34 pages • A New English House, Categorical Books, UK, 2005, 60 pages
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Life and career
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1961
Jonathan Woolf born at London.
2015
Jonathan Woolf died.
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- 1.Jonathan Woolf, architect - obituary. The Telegraph. 13 September 2015.
- 2.Winners of RIBA Awards 2004
- 3."Brick Leaf House", Kevin Mccloud, Grand Designs Magazine, Nov 2005
- 4.Categorical Books. A New English House. 2005.
- 5.Brick Leaf House on Urbarama
- 6.Moore, Rowan, 03.2010, Painted House, The Observer
- 7.Davidovici, Irina, 03.2010, Jonathan Woolf's Painted House, The Architects' Journal
- 8.Painted House on Archdaily
- 9.Peckham, Andrew, 12.2010, Review of Ordinary Works exhibition, catalogue and book in Architecture Research Quarterly, Volume 14, number 4
- 10.Woodman, Ellis, 01.2006, Review of A New English House's Book in Building Design Magazine
- 11.Heathcote, Edwin, 04.2006, Review of A New English House's Book in Architects' Journal volume 223, ISSN 0003-8466
- 12.Payne, Robert, 04.2007, Review of A New English House's Book in Architecture Ireland, ISSN 0790-8342
- 13.Cited in the source article.
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