Famous Quotes

"Every building is a prototype. No two are alike."

Helmut Jahn on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Helmut Jahn

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

• "I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."

• "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 not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"

• "The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."

• "The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."