Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Later work
Jacobsen is widely known for his modern pavilion-based residences — composed of simple gabled forms rectangular in plan. His large but intimately scaled pavilions recall the barns detached kitchens and smokehouses — the outbuildings — of rural America. [citation needed].

Hugh Newell Jacobsen (born 1929) is a prominent United States architect.