Sam Jacob (b. London, 1970) is a founding director of FAT, architect, writer and critic.

Jacob was most recently the partner in charge of the Hoogvliet Heerlijkheid project in Holland – a park, cultural centre and community facilities completed in October ’08 and developed in collaboration with WiMBY! The project explores ideas of Pop, populism and participation which form the basis of an architectural approach intended to explore the role of architecture as communicative device, programmatic agglomeration and social condenser. The project was shortlisted for a World Architecture Award.

Jacob has taught and lectured at universities in Europe and the US most recently as the Louis I Kahn Professor of Architecture at Yale in 2007. Other positions include post-graduate unit master at the University of Westminster, the Architectural Association and University of Greenwich.

Jacob is a frequent contributor to public architectural debate through regular lectures and symposia. He writes Strangeharvest.com and is architecture editor of Contemporary, a columnist for the Architects Journal, and contributes to magazines and journals including Icon, Art Review, Frieze, Metropolis and Log. Jacob is currently completing a PhD at the Center for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths College London.