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Edward Bernard Jakmauh, Jr., (9 September 1942, Dorchester, MA)  [1,2] is an American architect. Jakmauh, a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects [117] and The American College of Health Care Architects [118], has integrated the design of Health Care and Medical Education Facilities with socially responsible urbanism. Commissioned as a Lieutenant in the US Public Health Service, [18] he fulfilled his Vietnam War Duty (1968-1970) in the Health Service Research Group in Baltimore, MD, led by Richard Hseih, Ph. D. [19]. He has practiced at two firms: RTKL [24] in Baltimore and Ballinger [35] in Philadelphia. Jakmauh received a National Endowment for the Arts, City Options Grant, (1974-1975) to study the Baltimore waterfront. [ grant no. A41-42-35B].

Major built projects as an Associate/Owner with RTKL (1970-1976) include the Edward A. Garmatz Courthouse and Federal Building in Baltimore [24,25,26,27,28,29,30,30,31,32,33,57] with Sandor B. Csobaji [133] and Charles E. Lamb [134] and master planning for several buildings for the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions [34]. At Ballinger, as Principal/Owner (1976-2012), he completed the Wills Eye Hospital [36, 37, 38,39,40,41, 42,43,44,45], The Bryn Mawr Hospital, Delaware Valley Medical Center, Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, St. Elizabeth Hospital in Elizabeth NJ and the Jersey City Medical Center/Wilzig Hospital in Jersey City, NJ [ 46, 47,135]; also major work at Temple University Hospital and Temple University School of Medicine [59], Penn Medicine and Pennsylvania Hospital. Jakmauh was Principal for the Hershey Foods World Headquarters working with Associate Principal, design lead, Eric Swanson and landscape architect, Harriet Pattison, ASLA, [50]. In New York he teamed with the Polshek Partnership, now Ennead Architects, for the Cornell Medicine Weill Greenberg Medical Education and Ambulatory Services Building. Tod Schliemann of Polshek Partnership, led the design of the shell/exterior; Jakmauh led the planning and design of the fit up and interiors as the Ballinger Principal in Charge. [82,83,84,85,86,87] Ballinger teamed with Pei Cobb Freed, and was selected to design a replacement hospital for St. Vincent Catholic Medical Center [111,116] in Manhattan’s West Village. Planning, design and approvals had been completed when the financialmeltdown of 2008 caused the end of the project. As a synthesis of medical and urban planning, the project was among Jakmauh’s career favorites. Ian Bader, Partner at Pei Cobb Freed, led the building design. Jakmauh was the Principal for medical planning.

Jakmauh was Ballinger Principal in Charge for the Robert Wood Johnson/Barnabas Health Lakefront Tower, 2000-2008 in East Trenton, NJ, and also Shore Medical Center in Somers Point, NJ. Collaborating with his Ballinger colleagues Bill Gustafson [135] and Todd Drake, he completed the new Armstrong School of Medicine [129] at Johns Hopkins and also the Simulation Center. Jakmauh was the Ballinger Principal for the new Barnes Foundation and Education Building in Center City Philadelphia, PA, working as the associate local architect with the design architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien ( 2007-2012). .[89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104, 105,106,107,108,109,110,126,130]

School/Recognition/Other Activities

For his five years of undergraduate architecture training at the School of Architecture [7] at  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, (1960-1965) Jakmauh received AIA scholarships. He was awarded the Best Thesis Prize, one of the few written theses to ever win the award. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Building Sciences in 1964 and Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1965. In 1965, he was one of fourteen admitted to the Harvard Graduate School of Design Urban Design [9,10, 11, 12, 131] program give jointly by Harvard and MIT. He was awarded a William Stoughton Fellowship [8] covering all expenses. This fellowship is for a male who grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston. He received his Master of Architecture in Urban Design  degree in 1966. He won a Fulbright Fellowship in 1966 to study Regional Planning at University College London (UCL) and London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). [14,15]

When the Fulbright ended in 1967, he secured a position with Ahrends Burton and Koralek, (ABK)  [17] an eight-person architectural practice in London. Hired and supervised by Paul Koralek, 1933-2020, [137] and Paul Drake, 1934-1998, [138], Jakmauh completed presentation drawings and a rendering of Redcar District Library in Yorkshire [139], and  detailed custom furniture for Templeton College at the Oxford Centre of Management Studies, Oxford. He made site inspection visits to Thurmaston Junior School, now Eastfield County Primary School, in Leicestershire, and completed a roof plan and details for Maidenhead Library in Berkshire. Summers of 1962 and 1963, while at Rensselaer, he worked under Henry A. Wood, 1930-2017, [140] at Samuel Glaser Associates in Boston. The summer of 1964, he was selected as one of twelve students to work overseas under the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Exchange. He worked at The Building Design Partnership (BDP) in London under Bill Jack. His travel sketches were published in the ACSA annual report.

In 2005, Jakmauh was elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) [117] and Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Architects, (FACHA). [118] He is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional [120]. From 1996 to 2006, Jakmauh served as the co-chair of the AIA Philadelphia Chapter Health Facilities Committee. From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the School of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From 1998 to 2005, he served on the editorial board of the AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, and also the Editorial Board of the Architecture Press, Oxford, UK. He is on the board of Friends Center City Philadelphia and the Friends Center City Riverfront community. He serves on the Superintendence Committee of the Philadelphia Athenaeum.