Jonathan F. Bell, ARCHITECT

Providence, RI USA

401.954.2535

Jonathan Bell is an architect specializing in small, complex projects, adaptive reuse, interior architecture, and residential design. Jonathan has over 16 years of experience, and addresses the specifics of each project with a clear, straightforward, and creative approach. His work has won numerous awards, and has been published and exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally.

CURRENT WORK

Construction recently began on a residential addition in Providence’s Armory Historic District. The project expands the family’s kitchen and dining space, improves access to the back yard, and creates a new primary bedroom suite on the upper floor.

Old Brick School House, Providence RI: rehabilitation and addition to 1769 building for Providence Preservation Society. Photo by Warren Jagger.

•Construction is complete on the 1769 Old Brick School House project, a rehabilitation and small addition for the Providence Preservation Society’s headquarters in Providence.

•Jonathan recently completed his stay in France as the 2021 Fellow of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize.

•SLICE is a research project proposing a novel reuse tactic for under-used buildings. We completed this project in 2020, days before the COVID-19 shutdown. You can read or download a pdf of our book here. SLICE was funded by the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation.

•See other recent past work on DUAL’s website.

"Sophistication is not necessarily the product of highly developed machinery, nor intensive capital investment. It is more a way of using available equipment and resources with cunning and intelligence." —Reyner Banham, from The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment