A Quote by Helmut Jahn

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

Helmut Jahn

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Architecture Building City Drive Experience Suburban Walk

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Helmut Jahn
German - Architect
Born: January 4, 1940

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

Helmut Jahn

The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

Umberto Eco

The largest expense in our philanthropy is capital expenditure because we are building these institutions. This institution-building idea stems from my father because he has the experience of building a company from scratch.

Roshni Nadar

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.

Robert Moog

By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years' experience building electronic musical instruments.

Robert Moog

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

Paul Goldberger

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Henry Ward Beecher

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

Helmut Jahn

The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.

John Rocha

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

Raimund Abraham

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

Kurt Vonnegut

Why are people so supportive of him [Osama bin Laden] in many countries? Hes been out in these countries for decades building roads, building schools, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful.

Patty Murray

What makes us unique is that we actually build things. Unlike most hotel companies who just manage and have no experience building, designing, and developing a hotel, we started off on the opposite track. We started off building. We're construction guys first and foremost.

Donald Trump, Jr.

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

Regis Philbin

As for the forces, electromagnetism and gravity we experience in everyday life. But the weak and strong forces are beyond our ordinary experience. So in physics, lots of the basic building blocks take 20th- or perhaps 21st-century equipment to explore.