page_title: Johnpaul Jones
section_title: Native American projects
hierarchical_section_title: Johnpaul Jones / Work at Jones and Jones / Native American projects
caption_attribution_description: Daybreak Star Cultural Center.
context_page_description: Johnpaul Jones is an American architect and landscape architect, partner in Seattle-based architecture firm Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects, best known for innovative habitat immersion method design of zoo exhibits. A Native American himself, he has also executed many projects for various Native American organizations, and was lead design consultant for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian, completed 2004 in Washington, D.C. He was the first architect ever to receive the National Humanities Medal.
context_section_description: Another focus has been projects related to his Native American heritage. Among these are:
  Daybreak Star Cultural Center (with Arai/Jackson and Lawney Reyes) and People's Lodge expansion, Discovery Park (Seattle)
  Longhouse Project, The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
  The Agua Caliente Cultural Museum, Palm Springs, California
  The Aquinnah Cultural Center Master Plan for the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
  The Colville Confederated Tribes Museum Master Plan, Colville, Washington
  The De'aht Tribal Elders Longhouse center for Makah Indian Tribe, Neah Bay, Washington
  The Southern Ute Museum and Cultural Center for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, Ignacio, Colorado
  The Spokane Tribal Cultural Center Master Plan for the Spokane Tribe Planning Department, Wellpinit, Washington
  The Tiwyekinwes Cultural Center Master Plan for the Chief Joseph Band of the Nez Perce Indians, Nespelem, Washington
  Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Intellectual House, University of Washington, Seattle
  Main source for list:
  His Vancouver Land Bridge in Vancouver, Washington was designed in conjunction with Maya Lin as part of her Confluence Project. The bridge, "retracing part of the ancient Klickitat Trail Indian path with a curving, commemorative walkway above State Route 14" provides pedestrian access from Fort Vancouver to the Columbia River waterfront for the first time in decades.
  Jones was lead design consultant for the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. (Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal led the early phases of the project, but left.) Jones's involvement began when Heye Foundation was looking to house some of the collections that eventually became part of this museum. At that time, it looked like Ross Perot might acquire the collections for a new museum in Dallas, Texas, and Jones was involved on a consulting basis. According to Jones, the resulting museum "doesn't have a straight line in it… It centers around something very organic, that which is common to Indian communities around the nation. It centers around the four worlds: the natural world, the animal world, the human world and the spirit world… Within each one of those worlds is something that helped us in the design of this building, the site [and] the interiors."
caption: Daybreak Star Cultural Center (completed 1977)
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