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Architect Helmut Jahn's Projects

HELMUT JAHN, FAIA

Curriculum vitae

1940 Born January 4, 1940 in Nürnberg, Germany
1965 Graduated from Technische Hochschule, Munich, Germany
1965 - 1966 Worked with P.C. von Seidlein, Munich, Germany
1966 - 1967 Graduate studies at Illinois Institute of Technology, with Myron Goldsmith and Fazlur
1967 - 1973 Assistant to Gene Summers, C.F. Murphy Associates
1973 Executive Vice President and Director of Planning and Design, C.F. Murphy Associates
1975 Registered Architect NCARB; state registrations Illinois, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Iowa, and Member of German Chamber of Architects, State of Hessen
1977 Selected for Inclusion in 40th Edition “Who Who in America”
1979 Owens-Corning Fiberglas Energy Conservation Award - Argonne Program Support Facility
1980 Honorary Degree Doctor of Fine Arts – St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana
1980 Selection for Inclusion in 5th Edition “Who’s Who in Technology Today”
1981 Principal, Murphy/Jahn
1981 University of Illinois Circle Campus, Chicago Illinois, Visiting Professor at Design Studio
1981 Harvard University, Elliot Noyes Professor of Architectural Design
1982 President, Murphy/Jahn
1983 President and CEO, Murphy/Jahn
1983 Yale University, Davenport Visiting Professor of Architectural Design
1987 Fellow American Institute of Architects, in which his work has received seven American Institute of Architects National Awards and a total of (44) Distinguished Building Awards from local chapters.
1988 R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award for Distinguished Architecture Using Aluminum - United Airlines Terminal
1989 - 1994 Illinois Institute of Technology, Thesis Professor
1991 Ten Most Influential Living American Architects - American Institute of Architects
1993 Outstanding Achievement/Architect Award from the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts
1994 ”Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse" of the Federal Republic of Germany
   
   
Major Completed Projects:
   
2003 Deutsche Post Headquarters, Bonn, Germany
2002 Bayer AG Konzernzentrale, Leverkusen, Germany
2002 Shanghai International Expo Centre, Shanghai, China
2002 Kaufhof Galeria, Chemnitz, Germany
2000 Neues Kranzler Eck, Berlin, Germany
2000 Ha•Lo, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Airport Köln/Bonn, Köln, Germany
2000 Sony Center Berlin, Germany
1999 Munich Airport Center, Germany
1999 European Union Headquarters, Brussels
1998 Generale Bank Nederland, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1997 RCID Administration Building, Orlando, Florida
1994 Kurfürstendamm 70, Berlin, Germany
1994 Hotel Kempinski, Munich, Germany
1993 Caltex House, Singapore
1993 Hitachi Tower, Singapore
1991 Messeturm, Frankfurt, Germany
1988 Wilshire/Westwood, Los Angeles, California
1987 One Liberty Place, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1987 United Airlines Terminal One Complex, O'Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois
1986 Park Avenue Tower, New York, New York
1986 362 West Street, Durban, South Africa
1985 James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, Illinois
1983 11 Diagonal Street, Johannesburg, South Africa
1980 Xerox Centre, Chicago, Illinois
1974 Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri
   
   
The following Monograph books have been published on the work of Helmut Jahn:
   
 "Helmut Jahn - Design of a New Architecture ", Karl Kramer Verlag, 1986
"Helmut Jahn - Extra Edition", A + U Publishing Co., Ltd., 1986
"Helmut Jahn", Nory Miller, Rizzoli International Publications, 1986
"Helmut Jahn Modern Romantic", ed. Ante Glibota, Paris Art Center, 1987
"Helmut Jahn Airports", Birkhäuser Verlag, 1991
"Helmut Jahn, Building Identity", ECON, Executive Verlags GmbH, 1992
"Helmut Jahn 1982-1992", A + U Publishing Co., Ltd., 1992
"Hotel Kempinski", A + U Publishing Co., Ltd., 1995
"Murphy/Jahn, The Master Series", The Images Publishing Company, 1995
"Transparency", 1975-1995, Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 1996
"Archi-Neering, Helmut Jahn/Werner Sobek", Hatje Cantz, 1999
“Murphy/Jahn Millennium Series”, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd, 2001
“Helmut Jahn Architecture Engineering”, Birkhäuser Verlag AG, 2002
Numerous lectures, exhibitions, juries and publications worldwide.

 


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