Alfred Jacoby

Alfred Jacoby (born 1950) is a German architect and architectural lecturer, principally known for his output of synagogues in post-war Germany,^[3] development of a modern Jewish religious architectural vernacular,^[4] his teaching positions as a lecturer and professor of architecture, and his active architectural practice in Frankfurt am Main. Jacoby was born in Offenbach, in 1950, to a Polish father, and was educated at the University of Cambridge and Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule. Credited with being the first postwar architect in Germany to develop a distinctive Jewish vernacular for synagogue buildings,^[5] he is recognised as Germany's leading synagogue architect.^[6] Jacoby was Director of the Dessau Institute of Architecture at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bauhaus Dessau,^[7] from 2000 until 2017.

Alfred Jacoby
Jacoby in the Beith-Shalom Synagogue, Speyer, in 2011
Born	1950 Offenbach, Germany
Nationality	German
Occupation	Architect
Buildings	New Synagogue (Darmstadt),^[1]^[2] Aachen Synagogue

Publications

Further reading

• Jacoby, A. 2001. Synagogenbau in Deutschland nach dem Krieg. Kunst und Kirche: Präsidium des Evangelischen Kirchenbautages in Verbindung mit dem Institut für Kirchenbau und kirchliche Kunst der Gegenwart an der Philipps-Universität Marburg. 211–214.

References

1. Hammer-Schenk, Harold (1988). Schwarz, Hans-Peter (ed.). Die Architektur der Synagoge (in German). Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Klett-Cotta. ISBN 978-3-608-76272-3.
2. Hein, Rainer (10 November 2013). "Neue Synagoge in Darmstadt: Zeichen des Glauben, der Versöhnung und Zuversicht". Frankfurter Allgemeine (in German). Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
3. Bernstein, Fred (12 November 2000). "Display Examines Synagogue Design". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
4. Necker, Sylvia (1 June 2017). "Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination". In Lässig, Simone; Rürup, Miriam (eds.). Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History: Volume 8 of New German Historical Perspectives (First ed.). Berghahn Books. p. 170. ISBN 978-1-78533-554-9.
5. Singer, David, ed. (1996). "Federal Republic of Germany: Synagogue boom". American Jewish Year Book. 96. VNR AG: 292.
6. Engel, Matthew (23 May 2018). "Germany reclaimed: Berlin's Jewish revival". New Statesman. NS Media Group. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
7. "Architektur und Geoinformation: Prof. Alfred Jacoby". Hochschule Anhalt. Anhalt University of Applied Sciences. Retrieved 11 December 2019.