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Helmut Jahn

"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

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Donna Grant

"There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland."

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Donna Grant

"In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side."

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Donna Grant

"Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee."

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Donna Grant

"I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago."

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Donna Grant

"The studio that we mix in is still in Chicago."

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Donna Grant

"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

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Donna Grant

"It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters."

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Donna Grant

"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946."

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Donna Grant

"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

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Donna Grant

"I've never been arrested. I've been stopped, searched and had a gun put to my head by the Chicago cops."

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

America

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Helmut Jahn
"I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life."

Life

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Helmut Jahn
"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."

Creativity

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Helmut Jahn
"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

Chicago

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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."

Beauty

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

Architecture

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Helmut Jahn
"America has always imported history."

History

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Helmut Jahn
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."

Artist

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Helmut Jahn
"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't."

Wood

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Helmut Jahn
"When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded."

Work

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