Top 41 Quotes by Helmut Jahn

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.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

America has always imported history.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.

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.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.