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When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
- Helmut Jahn
#Coincidence
#Fortunate
#Think
#Work
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
- Helmut Jahn
#Always
#American
#Architecture
#Attitude
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
#Architecture
#Building
#Long
#Result
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
- Helmut Jahn
#Architecture
#Away
#Nothing
#Strive
Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work.
- Helmut Jahn
#Day
#Life
#Nothing
#Travel
#Work
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
- Helmut Jahn
#Architecture
#City
#Experience
#Walk
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
- Helmut Jahn
#Air
#American
#Care
#Fresh Air
#People
America has always imported history.
- Helmut Jahn
#Always
#America
#History
#Imported
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
- Helmut Jahn
#About
#Consequences
#Engineer
#Good
#He
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.
- Helmut Jahn
#Building
#Find
#Hard
#People
#Simple
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.
- Helmut Jahn
#Change
#Comfort
#Enough
#Glass
#Light
For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
- Helmut Jahn
#Drawing
#Me
#Thinking
#Vice Versa
#Vice
You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.
- Helmut Jahn
#Bad
#City
#Corner
#Never
#Walk
We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
- Helmut Jahn
#Building
#Distance
#Experience
#Unique
Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.
- Helmut Jahn
#Be Prepared
#Got
#Mean
#Project
#Success
I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
- Helmut Jahn
#Economic
#Skyscraper
#Think
#Who
#Will
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
- Helmut Jahn
#Competition
#Europe
#Special
#Think
#Win
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
- Helmut Jahn
#Buildings
#Create
#Want
#Will
#Work
Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
- Helmut Jahn
#Building
#Intellectual
#Looking
#Through
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
- Helmut Jahn
#Creativity
#More
#New
#Something
#Than
Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
- Helmut Jahn
#Alike
#Architecture
#Building
#Two
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