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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 350,070 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia. Helmut Jahn is the 250th most popular architect (down from 234th in 2019), the 2,554th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,280th in 2019) and the 26th most popular German Architect.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Helmut Jahn ranks 250 out of 424. Before him are Boris Iofan, Frederick Law Olmsted, Max Fabiani, Cedric Gibbons, Imre Steindl, and Friedrich von Schmidt. After him are Hermogenes of Priene, Lambert Lombard, Bernardo Buontalenti, Friedrich August Stüler, Vittorio Gregotti, and Domenico Trezzini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Helmut Jahn ranks 171. Before him are José van Dam, Chuck Close, Nicola Di Bari, Diane, Duchess of Württemberg, Vyacheslav Ivankov, and Tony Sheridan. After him are Gigi Proietti, Georgi Ivanov, Viktor Savinykh, Wim Ruska, Vagif Mustafazadeh, and Mirko Jozić. Among people deceased in 2021, Helmut Jahn ranks 233. Before him are Anerood Jugnauth, Teresa Żylis-Gara, Hilton Valentine, Yvon Douis, Louis Andriessen, and Art Metrano. After him are Mustafa Ben Halim, DMX, Roberto Calasso, Henri Schwery, Jovenel Moïse, and Milkha Singh.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Helmut Jahn ranks 2,554 out of 6,142. Before him are Erwin Jaenecke (1890), Nikolaus Federmann (1505), Friedrich von Schmidt (1825), Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869), Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann (1870), and Hans Tilkowski (1935). After him are Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt (1601), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), Gisela of Burgundy (950), Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772), Adam Müller (1779), and Arno Peters (1916).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Germany

Among architects born in Germany, Helmut Jahn ranks 26. Before him are Hans Poelzig (1869), Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann (1662), Lilly Reich (1885), Adolf Meyer (1881), Nicodemus Tessin the Elder (1615), and Friedrich von Schmidt (1825). After him are Friedrich August Stüler (1800), Günter Behnisch (1922), Paul Wallot (1841), Werner March (1894), Ernst May (1886), and Friedrich von Gärtner (1791).

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