About:

"Jaquelin T. Robertson, FAIA, AICP, architect and urban planner, is a partner in the New York City-based firm of Cooper, Robertson & Partners. He was founder of the New York City Urban Design Group and the first Director of the Mayor’s Office of Midtown Planning and Development and later served as a New York City Planning Commissioner. In 1975 he went to Iran for three years to direct the planning and design of the country’s new capital center, Shahestan Pahlavi. In 1978 Mr. Robertson started his own firm which expanded in 1980 to become Eisenman-Robertson Architects. From 1981 to 1988 Mr. Robertson practiced architecture and served as Dean of the School and Commonwealth Professor of Architecture at the University of Virginia. In 1988, he joined his Yale classmate, Alexander Cooper, in Cooper, Robertson & Partners. Throughout his career, Mr. Robertson has lectured widely, both here and abroad, and has taught architecture and urban design at Columbia University, the Rhode Island School of Design, the New School, The Salzburg Seminar, and at Yale University where he was Bishop Professor of Architectural Design."  (Source:Yale School of Architecture Web site).  He and fellow architect Robert A. M. Stern designed the land use plan for Celebration, Florida, the community developed by the Walt Disney Company. Robertson and Robert A. M. Stern designed the land use plan for Celebration, Florida, the community developed by the Walt Disney Company.
 

Books:

Lassell, Michael.  Celebration; The story of a town.  Disney, 2004.   On Reserve.
 

Articles (Selected from 1981 - 2004):

"Reinterpreting the classics: an idyll in the Dominican Republic draws on poetic precedents."  Giovannini, Joseph,  Architectural digest, vol. 61, no. 8, pp. 96-[105], Aug 2004.
    Note: Palladian-influenced beachfront house in the Casa de Campo resort by architect Jaquelin Robertson. (Source: Avery Online)

"Florida's Panhandle: with sophisticated dining and architecture and miles of beaches, it's the new American Riviera." Cronstrom, Kendell., House beautiful, vol. 145, no. 2, pp. 108, 110, 112, 116, Feb 2003.
    Note: Features attractions in Rosemary Beach, Grayton Beach, Eden State Gardens, Seagrove Beach, Fort Walton and Seaside, with architecture by David Rockwell, Scott Merrill, Jaquelin Robertson, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.  (Source: Avery Online)

"Celebration." Bignardi, Irene., Abitare, no. 395, pp. 234-237, May 2000.
     Note: Celebration, Florida, a planned community in Walt Disney World near Orlando. Architects: Robert A. M. Stern and Jaquelin Robertson. (Source: Avery Online)

"A sense of place [Celebration, Florida]."  Hellman, Peter., Garden design, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 74-81, Feb 1999
    Note: On the private gardens and public parks of Disney's neotraditionalist new town, near Orlando, Florida. Coordinating architects: Robert A. M. Stern and Jaquelin Robertson. (Source: Avery Online)

"The Mayors' Institute on City Design."  Riley, Joseph P., Robertson, Jaquelin Taylor, Block, David A.; Hoal, John., Places, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 8-11, Winter 1996.
    Note: Introd. to issue feature "Mayors and city design", by Joseph P. Riley, Jr., and Jaquelin Robertson. Issue includes seven articles indexed separately and "A house divided" by John Hoal and David Block.
     (Source: Avery Online)

"Designs on the future." Dunlop, Beth,  Architectural record, vol. 184, no. 1, pp. 64-69, Jan 1996.
    Note: Celebration, Florida, a new town for 20,000 residents near Orlando. Chief architects: Robert A.M. Stern, Jaquelin Robertson.

"The city is more than contingent." Robertson, Jacquelin Taylor, Campbell, Robert, Places, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 80-81, 1988.

"Robertson and Eisenman: 'We are an odd couple' [book review]." Architecture: the AIA journal, vol. 74, no. 12, pp. 85-[87], Dec 1985.

"Leon Krier: houses, places, cities." Porphyrios, Demetri,  Rowe, Colin,  Robertson, Jaquelin Taylor.  Architectural design, vol. 54, no. 7-8, pp. [2]-128, 1984.

"Parliament House, Canberra, Australia." Taylor, Jennifer; Bacon, Edmund Norwood,  Robertson, Jaquelin Taylor, Progressive architecture, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 88-95, Mar 1981.
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Articles listed above are available in the CCNY Architecture Library unless otherwise noted.
 

Web Site:

Cooper, Robertson & Partners.  www.cooperrobertson.com/profile.html
 
 

Judy Connorton
October 2005