title: Jonathan Woolf
text: # Jonathan Woolf
  
  Jonathan Woolf ((1961-02-13)13 February 1961 – (2015-09-04)4 September 2015) 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 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."
  
  The practice’s work ranged from private houses and apartment buildings through to arts, educational, commercial buildings and interiors.
  
  ## 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;
  * 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
  
  * Ijaz spartment, London
  * The Lion Rooms, London
  * Pocket House, London
  * Brick Leaf House, London
  * Mayfair Offices, London
  * Monkey Puzzle Pavilion, Aberdeen
  * Stockholm City Library competition, Stockholm
  * Painted House, London
  
  ## Monographs
  
  * De Aedibus International 4 , Jonathan Woolf Architects, Quart Verlag, Luzern, Switzerland, 2010; ISBN 978-3-03761-027-5, 62 pages
  * Ordinary Works, Exhibition Catalogue, London, UK, 2010; ISBN 978-0-9566029-0-9, 21 pages
  * Darco Magazine 12, Darco Editions, Matosinhos, Portugal, 2010; ISSN 1646-950X, 34 pages
  * A New English House , Categorical Books, UK, 2005; ISBN 1-904662-04-8, 60 pages
  