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Quote by Helmut Jahn
A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building,

A city building, you experience when you walk a suburban building, you experience when you drive. – Helmut Jahn

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Its 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 dont need as long as youre able to achieve the same result? – Helmut Jahn

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architecture
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Helmut Jahn
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You dont 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 dont talk to you. Theres very little interaction. – Helmut Jahn

Category:
Beauty
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Helmut Jahn
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To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. – Daniel Libeskind

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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. – Henry David Thoreau

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Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi

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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. – Arne Jacobsen

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