Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn is a Chicago-based German-American architect, known for designs such as the Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany, the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany, the One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Recent projects include a residential tower in New York City, 50 West St in 2016 and the Thyssenkrup Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017.

Date of birth:
4th January, 1940
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Architecture
"It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result?"
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Architecture
"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Architecture
"You don’t know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don’t talk to you. There’s very little interaction."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Beauty
"America has always imported history."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): History
"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Architecture
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Architecture
"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
― Helmut Jahn
Topic(s): Architecture

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