Romantic high tech / [presented by] Helmut Jahn.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Jahn, Helmut, 1940-2021, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design--United States.

Architectural design.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (28 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1984.

Summary:

Helmut Jahn was born in Germany, trained in architecture at the Technische Hochschule Munich between 1960 - 1965, and continued to work in that city until 1966 when he moved to the USA. There he trained for a short while at IIT, Chicago, under Myron Goldsmith and Fazlur Khan, before starting work with C. F. Murphy & Associates under Gene Summers. Since 1973 he has been Partner and Executive Vice President. In 1977 he joined the Chicago Seven Group. One of the moving lights of Chicago, he has received many awards and honours and has become internationally famous for the new life he has injected into the design of the skyscraper. Having started as a believer in functionalism, he has steadily moved away from the strictly Miesian character of the Murphy work. Of his recent buildings, he says in his talk that the functional, programmatic and technical aspects have very little influence on their appearance. The buildings deal with image. They synthesise an approach from abstract geometric forms to historic archetypal forms, to Art Deco, forms that echo the joyful symbolism of early skyscrapers like Chicago's Tribune Tower and Wrigley building. Though the buildings have a formal order and a connection to history, there's a re-thinking of the distribution of interior space, so that atriums and other amenities not in the brief come out of the design process, there's an innovative use of technology and there's a social and civic impact on the spaces in and around.

Contents:

Helmut Jahn, 1984

St. Mary's Athletic Facility

Bank Of The South West Tower, Houston

Rust-Oleum Corp HQ, Vernon Hills, Illinois

American Royal Arena. Kansas City

Area 2 Police HQ

Argonne Program Support Facility

First Source Center

Left: Pennzoil Place, Houston, By Johnson Burgee. Right: Hancock Tower, Boston, By I. M. Pei

Left: AT & T Building, New York, By Johnson Burgee. Right: Portland Building, Oregon, By Michael Graves

Left: Lloyds Of London Building, London, By Richard Rogers & Partners. Right: Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank, Hong Kong, By Foster Associates

Left: Wainwright Building, By Louis Sullivan. Right: Federal Center, Chicago, By Mies Van Der Rohe

Tribune Tower, Chicago, 1925 By Ray Hood

Jahn's Entry To "Late Entries To The Tribune Tower Competition"

Jahn's Entry To Messe Frankfurt Competition

Xerox Center, Chicago

One South Wacker, Chicago

Board Of Trade Addition, Chicago

North West Terminal, Chicago

State Of Illinois Center, Chicago

Park Avenue Tower, New York

362 West Street, Durban, South Africa

425 Lexington Avenue, New York.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 24, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.