Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
Helmut Jahn
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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art. -
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. -
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. -
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. -
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.
More quotes by Helmut Jahn
- A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
- Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
- I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
- 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?
- The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.