Jonathan Woolf () was a British architect.
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
In 1991 he established his own practice. In 2003 the practice completed Brick Leaf House in Hampstead, North London, which received a RIBA AwardWinners of RIBA Awards 2004 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.""Brick Leaf House", Kevin Mccloud, Grand Designs Magazine, Nov 2005
Recognition
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 Ijaz Apartment, London, 1991 The Lion Rooms, London, 1993 Ziggurat Studio, London, 1993 & 1998 Pocket House, London, 1998 Brick Leaf House, Hampstead, London, 2003;Brick Leaf House on Urbarama Mayfair Offices, London, 2006 Two Mayfair Penthouses, London, 2007 Monkey Puzzle Pavilion, Aberdeen, Scotland, 2007 Bloomsbury Apartments, London, 2008 Painted House, London, 2009 Moore, Rowan, 03.2010, Painted House, The ObserverDavidovici, Irina, 03.2010, Jonathan Woolf's Painted House, The Architects' JournalPainted House on Archdaily Lost Villa, 2014
Gallery
Monographs De Aedibus International 4 , Jonathan Woolf Architects, Quart Verlag, Luzern, Switzerland, 2010; , 62 pages Ordinary Works, Exhibition Catalogue, London, UK, 2010; , 21 pages Peckham, Andrew, 12.2010, Review of Ordinary Works exhibition, catalogue and book in Architecture Research Quarterly, Volume 14, number 4 Darco Magazine 12, Darco Editions, Matosinhos, Portugal, 2010; ISSN 1646-950X, 34 pages A New English House , Categorical Books, UK, 2005; , 60 pages Woodman, Ellis, 01.2006, Review of A New English House's Book in Building Design MagazineHeathcote, Edwin, 04.2006, Review of A New English House's Book in Architects' Journal volume 223, ISSN 0003-8466Payne, Robert, 04.2007, Review of A New English House's Book in Architecture Ireland, ISSN 0790-8342
References
Like Leaves on a Tree: three schemes by Jonathan Woolf’ by Tony Fretton, Building Design, 09, 2003
External links Jonathan Woolf Architects Official website Calderon, Diego, 04.2010, Sobre la construccion de la imagen, Piso Magazine Moore, Rowan, 03.2010, Painted House, The Observer Davidovici, Irina, 03.2010, Jonathan Woolf's Painted House, The Architects' Journal