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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Helmut Jahn has received more than 369,926 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Jahn is the 312th most popular architect (down from 249th in 2019), the 3,453rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,551st in 2019) and the 37th most popular German Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Helmut Jahn ranks 312 out of 518. Before him are William Chambers, Albert Kahn, Charles Jencks, Dominikus Zimmermann, Joseph Poelaert, and Thom Mayne. After him are Augustin Ehrensvärd, Ron Arad, Mauro Codussi, Dominique Perrault, Edwin Lutyens, and Carl Humann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Helmut Jahn ranks 243. Before him are Peter Benchley, Charles T. Kowal, Mohammed Magariaf, Terry Dischinger, Jan Eliasson, and John Mahoney. After him are Samuel Little, Lill Lindfors, Don Nelson, Bruce Beresford, Peter C. Doherty, and Michel Micombero. Among people deceased in 2021, Helmut Jahn ranks 245. Before him are Nino Vaccarella, Roberto Calasso, Yitzhak Arad, Yvon Douis, Carla Fracci, and Ivan Patzaichin. After him are Gunilla Bergström, Edmund Gettier, Yukhym Zvyahilsky, Henri Schwery, B. J. Thomas, and Norman Lloyd.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Jahn ranks 3,453 out of 7,253. Before him are Otto Gessler (1875), John Albert II (1590), Maurice d'Elbée (1752), Princess Therese of Saxe-Altenburg (1836), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), and Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (1354). After him are Brunhilde Pomsel (1911), Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg (1829), Henry Oldenburg (1619), Carl Diem (1882), Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen (1879), and Bernhard Cullmann (1949).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Helmut Jahn ranks 37. Before him are Werner March (1894), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), Ernst May (1886), Paul Wallot (1841), Albert Kahn (1869), and Dominikus Zimmermann (1685). After him are Carl Humann (1839), Heinrich Tessenow (1876), Herman Sörgel (1885), Peter Joseph Lenné (1789), Rudolf Wolters (1903), and Theodor Fischer (1862).

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