Quotes by Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

People

Simple

Years

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Architecture

Building

Cities

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

Propose

Reverse

Thinking

America has always imported history.

America

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don’t care about daylight or fresh air.

Air

Chinese

People

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Creativity

Elimination

Something New

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Judging

Opinion

Smart

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Architecture

Building

Two

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

Drawing

Thinking

Vices

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

China

Firm

Sells

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Air

Ambition

America

Architecture

Artist

Attitude

Building

Ceilings

Chicago

China

Chinese

Cities

Coincidence

Comfort

Competition

Creating

Creativity

Distance

Drawing

Elimination

Execution

Exercise

Farce

Feel Better

Firm

Fuel Efficiency

Glasses

Goal

Ideas

Indirect

Inspirational

Inspiring

Integrity

Jobs

Judging

Light

Long

Minors

Natural

Needs

Office

Opinion

People

Propose

Recycling

Reverse

Sells

Simple

Smart

Something New

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Quotes by Helmut Jahn

Helmut Jahn

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It’s not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

America has always imported history.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don’t care about daylight or fresh air.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how a building will perform over time.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!

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