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The late photographer Robert C. Lautman aimed his lens at numerous modernist projects (and historic landmarks) throughout his career, including countless structures by AD 100 architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen. In a partnership that lasted decades, Lautman took such gorgeously luminescent pictures of Jacobsen's clean forms that at times the environments didn't seem real or even possible. "It's been said that he made my career and I made his," Jacobsen told AD recently. "Conceptually, he knew exactly what I was trying to do." AD first featured Lautman's shots of Jacobsen's work in February 1981, and his last contribution to Architectural Digest appears—exactly three decades later—in the February 2011 issue. Our slide show pays homage to Lautman and Jacobsen's celebrated collaboration, as seen in our pages over the years.