« All Architecture Quotes · Helmut Jahn's Page
Architecture Quotes by Helmut Jahn
- Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
- 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…
- I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
- The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.
- A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
- The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
More Architecture Quotes
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto