"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
-Helmut Jahn
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"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
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"A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
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"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
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"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?"
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"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
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"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."
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