Helmut Jahn was a German-American architect. Born in 1940 in Zirndorf, Germany his father was schoolteacher and his mother a housewife. He started his architecture studies at the Technical University of Munich then at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He joined Charles Francis Murphy’s architecture firm in 1967, eventually taking sole control and renaming the firm Murphy/Jahn. He was the 8th member of the Chicago Seven (something else we’ll need to explore). Jahn died in a bicycle accident near his home 2021. This blog post on dezeen features a short documentary on Helmut Jahn “In a Flash”
Messeturm
1991, Frankfurt, Germany
One American Plaza
1991, San Diego, California
Caltex House
1993, Singapore
Hitachi Tower
1993, Singapore
Cologne Bonn Airport
2000, Cologne, Germany
Deutsche Post Tower
2003, Bonn, Germany
Munich Business Hower
2003, Munich, Germany
IIT Student Housing
2003, Chicago, Illinois
Veer Towers
2010, Paradise Nevada
Wesser Tower
2010, Breman, Germany
Joe and Rika Mansueto Library
2011, Chicago, Illinois
Cosmopolitan
2013, Twarda, Warsaw
5 West Street
2016, New York, New York
Thyssenkrupp Test Tower
2017, Rottweil, Germany
