Three Architects

Three Architects

The Three Architects I reviewed was Helmut Jahn, Carlo Scarpa, and Frank Gehry. All three were very different from each other including region, style, and upbringing.  
Helmut Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany January 4, 1940 and is a German-American architect. He is an award winning architect of the following awards: 1991 - "Ten Most Influential Living American Architects" from the American Institute of Architects, 1993 - "Outstanding Achievement/Architect Award" from The American Academy of Art, Chicago, Illinois, 1994 - "Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse" of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2002 - Institute Honour Award of the American Institute of Architects for the Sony Center, 2005 - Murphy/Jahn, Inc. recipient of the AIA Architecture Firm Award.
After attending the Technical University of Munich from 1960 to 1965 he worked with Peter C. von Seidlein for a year. In 1966 he emigrated to Chicago to further study architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, leaving school without earning his degree. In 1967 he joined C. F. Murphy Associates as a protégé of Gene Summers and was appointed Executive Vice President and Director of Planning and Design of the firm in 1973. In 1981 the firm was renamed Murphy/Jahn, although Murphy died a few years later in 1985, leaving Jahn in control. Despite a rocky start when the roof of his first major project Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri collapsed in 1979, Jahn established his pre-eminent reputation in 1985 with the State of Illinois Center in Chicago which prompted him to be dubbed "Flash Gordon." He is   well-known for designs such as the US$800 million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, formerly the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Suvarnabhumi Airport, an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand.
Though maintaining his office in Chicago under the Murphy/Jahn moniker, Jahn has grown the business into a global...