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Samantha Jacobson is a designer and critic. Her work has appeared in Artforum, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, the Boston Globe, Interior Design, New York Times Magazine, Elle, InStyle.com, Fast Company’s Co.Design, ArchDaily, the Providence Journal, and Blast Magazine.
Recent projects include "Flotsam (How to Live Together)," a 2.3 mile-long landscape installation on the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara; 62585 Golden Street, a speculative single family residence and vacation rental in Joshua Tree, California to be completed in 2018; and a single family residence in Litchfield, Connecticut, also to be completed in 2018. Since October 2014, Ms. Jacobson has been Co-Editor of KEEPITDIRTY.ORG, with Eileen Joy. She founded the design consultancy HAHA in 2015.
Ms. Jacobson holds degrees in architecture studies from Rice University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She lives in California.
HAHA, Irvine, CA, US, Architectural & Interdisciplinary Design Consultant
President, principal and creative director.
In addition to contract research and design assistance, HAHA provides architectural, landscape, graphic, event and interior decorative design consultation to institutions and the general public. Design solutions vary by project but in general emphasize technical rigor, ecological sensitivity and the economic as well as aesthetic benefits of well-thought-out custom design solutions. Project and content management are also offered.
NADAAA, Boston, MA, US, Designer
CD, CA: Hinman Research Building rehabilitation and adaptive reuse, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (citation: 2011 PA award);
Pre-SD, SD, DD, CD, CA: Cocktail Culture exhibition design, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island;
SD, DD, CD: Samsung Raemian Model Home Gallery, Seoul, Korea (candidate: 2012 PA award).
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, Masters, History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art
MITx Fellowship, Scholarship
MIT Course 4 Graduate Fellowship, Scholarship
RDA Initiatives for Houston Grant, Grant
Start-up funds for Underfun, a Houston-based research initiative focusing on color and the adaptive re-use of marginal spaces produced by transportation infrastructure
ArCH Foundation Grant, Grant
Supporting grant for Underfun, a Houston-based research initiative focusing on color and the adaptive re-use of marginal spaces produced by transportation infrastructure
Leadership Rice Envision Grant, Grant
Full-funding for ColorCycle, a student-initiated, campus-wide public art project at Rice University