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Helmut Jahn

1940 - 2021

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Helmut Jahn (January 4, 1940 – May 8, 2021) was a German-American architect, known for projects such as the Sony Center on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany; the Messeturm in Frankfurt, Germany; the Thompson Center in Chicago; One Liberty Place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand, among others. His recent projects included 50 West Street, a residential tower in New York City in 2016 and the ThyssenKrupp Test Tower in Rottweil, Germany in 2017. He was also behind 1000M in Chicago which began construction in 2019. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Jahn is the 287th most popular architect (up from 312th in 2019), the 3,082nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,453rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Helmut Jahn ranks 287 out of 518. Before him are William Chambers, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Cedric Gibbons, Bernardo Buontalenti, Werner March, and Nicolai Eigtved. After him are Juan Bautista de Toledo, Steven Holl, Friedrich von Gärtner, Mauro Codussi, Boris Iofan, and Thom Mayne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Helmut Jahn ranks 212. Before him are Brian Bennett, Sandro Munari, Berit Mørdre, Angela Carter, Marie-José Nat, and Macha Méril. After him are Ali Nasir Muhammad, Christoph Blocher, Wim Ruska, Marcelino Martínez, Jack Nicklaus, and Dallas Long. Among people deceased in 2021, Helmut Jahn ranks 217. Before him are Goodwill Zwelithini, Danilo Popivoda, Edward Cassidy, Jovenel Moïse, Lamine Diack, and Eric Carle. After him are Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Zlatko Kranjčar, Igor Kirillov, Jean-François Stévenin, Arlene Dahl, and Anne Buydens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Jahn ranks 3,084 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Wilhelm Thomé (1840), Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873), Adolf Erman (1854), John I, Duke of Saxony (1249), Johann Heinrich Alsted (1588), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772). After him are Klaus Tennstedt (1926), Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (1859), Siegfried Bing (1838), Georg Konrad Morgen (1909), John George II, Duke of Saxe-Eisenach (1665), and Mario Götze (1992).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Helmut Jahn ranks 31. Before him are Hermann Tilke (1954), Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615), Hermann Muthesius (1861), Friedrich August Stüler (1800), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), and Werner March (1894). After him are Friedrich von Gärtner (1791), Dominikus Zimmermann (1685), Ernst Ziller (1837), Ernst May (1886), Paul Wallot (1841), and Heinrich Tessenow (1876).

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