Helmut Jahn

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity. I'm a simple guy who works a lot.

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.

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.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

I didn't go on a campaign of developers asking, 'Please give me money.'

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.