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'''Jane Thompson''', AICP (June 30, 1927 – August 22, 2016) was an American [[urbanist]], designer and planner, with an international career exceeding forty years.
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'''Jane (Fiske) Thompson''', AICP, Hon. AIA, principal of Thompson Design Group, is an urbanist designer and planner, who over forty years has impacted cities in North America and around the world, planning successful well-loved places that contribute to the vitality and identity of the cities in which they are located.


==Biography==
Ms. Thompson’s career in the design field has embraced both writing about it and working at it professionally.
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Thompson (née Fiske) was educated in the fine and applied arts at [[Vassar College]] with graduate work at [[Bennington College]] and [[NYU Institute of Fine Arts]], her career has been devoted to the interaction of many facets of applied design. She spent early years in the [[Museum of Modern Art]], becoming acting Assistant Curator in the Department of Architecture. This was followed by positions as Architecture Editor of ''Interiors Magazine''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Jane Thompson |date=16 June 2010 |url=https://www.idsa.org/content/jane-thompson |publisher=Industrial Designers Society of America |access-date=10 February 2022}}</ref> In 1954, she helped found Industrial Design (later known as International Design) magazine and served as its Editor-in-Chief<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lamont |first1=Matt |title=Industrial Design Magazine – American Modernist Inspiration |date=2 May 2021 |url=https://www.designreviewed.com/industrial-design-magazine-american-modernist-inspiration/ |access-date=10 February 2022}}</ref>


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In the 1960s, sponsored by [[Edgar Kaufmann Jr.|Edgar Kaufmann Jr]].'s Foundation, she worked with [[Walter Gropius]] on an exploration of the creative educational methods of the original [[Bauhaus]]; she became a partner in architect [[Ben Thompson (architect)|Ben Thompson]]'s retail venture, [[Design Research (store)|Design Research]], during its 60s expansion from Cambridge to New York to California.
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Educated in the fine and applied arts at Vassar College with graduate work at Bennington College and NYU Institute of Fine Arts, her career has been devoted to the interaction of many facets of applied design. She spent early years in the Museum of Modern Art, becoming acting Assistant Curator in the Department of Architecture. This was followed by positions as Architecture Editor of Interiors Magazine, the Founding Editor of Industrial Design (later I.D. International Design.)


She became [[Benjamin Thompson (architect)|Ben Thompson]]'s second wife in 1969.
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In the 1960’s, sponsored by Edgar Kaufmann Jr. she worked with Walter Gropius on an exploration of the creative educational methods of the original Bauhaus; she became a partner in Ben Thompson’s pioneering retail venture, Design Research, during its 60s expansion from Cambridge to New York to California ( She tells that story in a forthcoming book, “Design Research: The Store that Brought Modern Living to American Homes”, to be published by Chronicle Books, Sept. 2010.)


Jane Thompson handled programming and planning Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Architects and Planners (BTA), founded in 1967 in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. As partner for planning, Jane headed Thompson's project teams on large urban planning projects, including the Chicago Navy Pier and Grand Central Business Improvement District. She died at the age of 89 on August 22, 2016.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/us/jane-thompson-dead.html|title=Jane Thompson, Designer Who Helped Transform Waterfronts, Dies at 89|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|date=2016-08-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2018-03-22|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Jane’s design partnership with AIA Gold Medalist Ben Thompson began with the founding of Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Architects and Planners (BTA) in 1966. One self-sponsored project in the new office was a pro-bono proposal to revitalize Boston’s abandoned [[Quincy_Market]] site, which ultimately absorbed 12 years for completion of the instantly successful [[Faneuil Hall Marketplace]], in which the Thompsons were also leading restaurateurs for two decades. The office practice in Cambridge (with Jane as Partner for Planning and Urban Design) blossomed with creative restoration projects, mixed use markets and urban waterfront developments around the world, In additional to innovative waterfront restorations in New York, Baltimore and Miami with The Rouse Company, BTA had commissions for waterfront revitalization in London, Cardiff, Dublin, Amsterdam, Yokohama and Tokyo. In the imaginative restoration of [[Washington’s Union Station]] (2004 – 2008), BTA was responsible for replanning and redesign of the multi-modal terminal facility and the Thompsons were co-developers / owners in Union Station Venture. Ben Thompson retired in 1994, and died in 2002.


===Thompson Design Group 1994-2015===
Since 1994, as Principal of her own firm, Thompson Design Group (TDG), Jane creates successful places by addressing social interaction, commercial exchange, and economic vitality in all the firm’s planning and design work. With an emphasis on preservation and imaginative reuse of obsolete places, her TDG projects have included Navy Pier in Chicago, Grand Central District and Times Square Center in New York City. Master plan for Governor’s Island NYC and Cleveland’s North Coast Harbor.
After 1994, Jane Thompson was Principal of her own firm, Thompson Design Group (TDG).<ref name="AIA-2016"/> The company had an emphasis on preservation and imaginative reuse of obsolete places. Master plan projects included [[Navy Pier]] in Chicago, [[Governors Island]] in New York, and [[North Coast Harbor]] in [[Cleveland]]. All were accomplished in partnership with the architect and urban planner Pratap Talwar, TDG's Principal in Charge.


Since 1994 Thompson Design Group has branched into large scale redevelopment planning; the firm’s Master Planning and Development Guidelines for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Branch,_New_Jersey|City of Long Branch NJ]], leading the city’s redevelopment for over a decade, have received top awards from the Monmouth County Planning Department and New Jersey State Department of Planning. A TDG Master Plan for Houston’s 10-mile-long [[Buffalo Bayou]] district has won acclaim as a comprehensive urban planning model.
Thompson and Talwar also branched into large-scale redevelopment planning; the firm's Master Planning and Development Guidelines for the [[Long Branch, New Jersey|City of Long Branch NJ]], have received top awards from the Monmouth County Planning Department and New Jersey State Department of Planning.


TDG's comprehensive Masterplan for all lands bordering Houston's 10-mile-long [[Buffalo Bayou Park|Buffalo Bayou]] waterway (a district of 10 square miles ) won acclaim as a far-seeing urban planning model.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/buffalobayou/|title=What Dallas can learn from Buffalo Bayou in Houston|website=res.dallasnews.com|date=26 February 2015 |language=en|access-date=2018-03-22}}</ref>
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Jane was active on the IDCA (International Design Conference in Aspen) from 1971-2002, as a Board member, program chairman, and speaker. In 2000, she was awarded Institute Honors by the American Institute of Architects, and received the Personal Recognition Award of the Industrial Design Society of America for a lifetime contribution to the field of design.


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Jane Thompson was active in the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Noruschat |first1=Suzanne |last2=Snoyman |first2=Natalie |last3=Nanol |first3=Emmabeth |title=Finding aid for the International Design Conference in Aspen records, 1949-2006 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pg1t6j/entire_text/ |publisher=Onlive Archive of California |access-date=10 February 2022}}</ref> from 1971 to 2002, as a board member, program chairman, and speaker. In 1994, she was awarded Institute Honors by the [[American Institute of Architects]], and in 1998 received the Personal Recognition Award of the Industrial Design Society of America for a lifetime contribution to the field of design.
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For their lifelong support of Finnish Design and way of life, the President of Finland in 2000 named Ben and Jane Thompson each individually as Knight First Class, Order of the Lion of Finland.

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For their lifelong support of Finnish Design and way of life, the President of Finland in 2000 named Ben and Jane Thompson each individually as Knight First Class, [[Order of the Lion of Finland]].<ref name=":0" />

In 2010, "Sir Lady Jane" as she was nicknamed<ref name="AIA-2016">{{cite web |title=Obituary: 'Sir Lady Jane' Thompson Dies |url=https://www.architectmagazine.com/design/sir-lady-jane-thompson-dies_o |publisher=The Journal of the American Institute of Architects |access-date=10 February 2022 |date=25 August 2016}}</ref> (as both a Knight and wife of a Knight) was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the [[Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum]].<ref>[http://www.cooperhewitt.org/national-design-awards/about/history History of Honorees & Jurors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514202607/http://www.cooperhewitt.org/national-design-awards/about/history |date=2014-05-14 }}, National Design Awards (Smithsonian). Retrieved 2013-12-21.</ref> Then followed an Honorary PhD from [[Boston Architectural College]], 2011, and the lifetime Award of Honor from [[Boston Society of Architects]] in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.architects.org/awards/bsa-award-honor|title=BSA Award of Honor|website=Architects.org|access-date=2018-04-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221231236/https://www.architects.org/awards/bsa-award-honor|archive-date=2018-12-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

* Jane Thompson and [[Alexandra Lange]], ''Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes'', 2010. {{ISBN|0-8118-6818-4}}.

==Notes==
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Latest revision as of 05:48, 16 August 2024

For the former slave, see Jane Jackson Thompson. For the British writer and diarist, see Jane Tonge Thompson.

Jane Thompson, AICP (June 30, 1927 – August 22, 2016) was an American urbanist, designer and planner, with an international career exceeding forty years.

Biography

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Thompson (née Fiske) was educated in the fine and applied arts at Vassar College with graduate work at Bennington College and NYU Institute of Fine Arts, her career has been devoted to the interaction of many facets of applied design. She spent early years in the Museum of Modern Art, becoming acting Assistant Curator in the Department of Architecture. This was followed by positions as Architecture Editor of Interiors Magazine.[1] In 1954, she helped found Industrial Design (later known as International Design) magazine and served as its Editor-in-Chief[2]

In the 1960s, sponsored by Edgar Kaufmann Jr.'s Foundation, she worked with Walter Gropius on an exploration of the creative educational methods of the original Bauhaus; she became a partner in architect Ben Thompson's retail venture, Design Research, during its 60s expansion from Cambridge to New York to California.

She became Ben Thompson's second wife in 1969.

Jane Thompson handled programming and planning Benjamin Thompson & Associates, Architects and Planners (BTA), founded in 1967 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As partner for planning, Jane headed Thompson's project teams on large urban planning projects, including the Chicago Navy Pier and Grand Central Business Improvement District. She died at the age of 89 on August 22, 2016.[3]

Thompson Design Group 1994-2015

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After 1994, Jane Thompson was Principal of her own firm, Thompson Design Group (TDG).[4] The company had an emphasis on preservation and imaginative reuse of obsolete places. Master plan projects included Navy Pier in Chicago, Governors Island in New York, and North Coast Harbor in Cleveland. All were accomplished in partnership with the architect and urban planner Pratap Talwar, TDG's Principal in Charge.

Thompson and Talwar also branched into large-scale redevelopment planning; the firm's Master Planning and Development Guidelines for the City of Long Branch NJ, have received top awards from the Monmouth County Planning Department and New Jersey State Department of Planning.

TDG's comprehensive Masterplan for all lands bordering Houston's 10-mile-long Buffalo Bayou waterway (a district of 10 square miles ) won acclaim as a far-seeing urban planning model.[5]

Jane Thompson was active in the International Design Conference in Aspen (IDCA)[6] from 1971 to 2002, as a board member, program chairman, and speaker. In 1994, she was awarded Institute Honors by the American Institute of Architects, and in 1998 received the Personal Recognition Award of the Industrial Design Society of America for a lifetime contribution to the field of design.

For their lifelong support of Finnish Design and way of life, the President of Finland in 2000 named Ben and Jane Thompson each individually as Knight First Class, Order of the Lion of Finland.[3]

In 2010, "Sir Lady Jane" as she was nicknamed[4] (as both a Knight and wife of a Knight) was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.[7] Then followed an Honorary PhD from Boston Architectural College, 2011, and the lifetime Award of Honor from Boston Society of Architects in 2012.[8]

Bibliography

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  • Jane Thompson and Alexandra Lange, Design Research: The Store That Brought Modern Living to American Homes, 2010. ISBN 0-8118-6818-4.

Notes

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  1. ^ "Jane Thompson". Industrial Designers Society of America. 16 June 2010. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  2. ^ Lamont, Matt (2 May 2021). "Industrial Design Magazine – American Modernist Inspiration". Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Dunlap, David W. (2016-08-26). "Jane Thompson, Designer Who Helped Transform Waterfronts, Dies at 89". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  4. ^ a b "Obituary: 'Sir Lady Jane' Thompson Dies". The Journal of the American Institute of Architects. 25 August 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  5. ^ "What Dallas can learn from Buffalo Bayou in Houston". res.dallasnews.com. 26 February 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  6. ^ Noruschat, Suzanne; Snoyman, Natalie; Nanol, Emmabeth. "Finding aid for the International Design Conference in Aspen records, 1949-2006". Onlive Archive of California. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  7. ^ History of Honorees & Jurors Archived 2014-05-14 at the Wayback Machine, National Design Awards (Smithsonian). Retrieved 2013-12-21.
  8. ^ "BSA Award of Honor". Architects.org. Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
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