Architecture Quote by Helmut Jahn Download Open image “The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.” — Helmut Jahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Attitude Efficiency Execution Productivity Should
Architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
“Strategy without execution increases inefficiencies; execution without strategy fosters chaos.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.” — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control. — N. Robert Hammer Copy Share Image
“(27) The key to efficiency lies in the correct balance between organisation and method.” — Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon Copy Share Image
Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results. — Lawrence Bossidy Copy Share Image
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… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
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… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image