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I'm ashamed to be German.
Helmut Jahn / Architect
Ashamed
German
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IBM has a very solid business image.
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Ibm
Solid
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America has always imported history.
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Imported
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Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
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Architecture
Building
Prototype
Two
Alike
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For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.
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Drawing
Thinking
Vice Versa
Vices
Versa
Vice
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I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
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Architecture
Strive
Taken
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In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.
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Demanding
Rent
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We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.
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Buildings
Pleasurable
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The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
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Architecture
Attitude
Efficiency
Execution
Fuel Efficiency
Towards
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Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
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Ceilings
Glare
Higher
Indirect
Lighting
Use
Allow
Healthier
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When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.
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America
Today
Wonder
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We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.
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Creating
Distance
Unique
Unique Experience
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A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
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Architecture
Building
Cities
Suburban
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When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.
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Coincidence
Fortunate
Thinking
Working It
Earlier
Succeeded
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I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.
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Exercise
Feel Better
Thinking
Regularly
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Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.
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Creativity
Elimination
Inventing
Something New
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In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
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Artist
Competition
Europe
Thinking
Winning
Architects
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Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.
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Air
Care
Chinese
Daylight
Don't Care
Fresh Air
People
American
Buildings
Footprints
Fresh
Care People American
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I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.
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Building
Minors
Urban
Minor
Suburban
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Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.
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Be Prepared
Prepared
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A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.
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Components
Propose
Reverse
Thinking
Ask
Consequences
He
Engineer
Himself
Proposes
Stylistic
Systems
Thinks
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Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.
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Inspirational
Inspiring
Ideas
Intellectual
Transparency
Straight
Physical
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Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.
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Jobs
Competition
Up To You
Commission
Competitions
Hardly
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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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Architecture
Ambition
Architect
Integrity
Profession
Scruples
Usa
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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.
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People
Simple
Years
Judge
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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.
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Cab
Chicago
Cities
Michigan
Thinking
Avenue
Corner
Mile
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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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China
Firm
Sells
Work Where Place
German
French
Sell
Internationally
Operate
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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.
Helmut Jahn / Architect
Critics
Entitled
Judging
Opinion
Smart
Judge
Perform
Critic
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I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
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Space
Collaboration
Creativity
Interaction
Office
Urban
Implies
Improve
Suburban
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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.
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Conventional
Skyscraper
Someday
Apply
Developer
Require
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We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't.
Helmut Jahn / Architect
Harder
Materials
Natural
Produce
Recycling
Synthetic
Valuable
Woods
Prefer
Metal
Wood
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When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention.
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Endeavor
Sailing
Work Your Me
Work Me Your
Professionally
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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.
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Travel
Pleasure
Rainy
Rainy Day
Time Consuming
Life Work Day
Life Work Travel
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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.
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Comfort
Glasses
Light
Architects
Glass
Reflective
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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.
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Chinese
Farce
Filled
Interaction
People
Presentation
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I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.
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Conscious
People
Thinking
Workforce
Young Generation
Younger Generation
Younger
Demanding
Dominate
Poised
Socially
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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?
Helmut Jahn / Architect
Architecture
Achieve
Goal
Long
Needs
Resources
Why Not
Eliminate
Immaterial
Material
Result
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I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.
Helmut Jahn / Architect
Nice Things
Afford
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