German-American architect Helmut Jahn died in an accident on Saturday (May 8th) while riding his bike. Before finishing his degree, he took a job at C.F. Murphy Associates, in 1967 and worked under Gene Summers, designing the new McCormick Place. Architect Helmut Jahn has passed away at the age of 81 in a bike crash last weekend. Architect Helmut Jahn (1940-2021) came to Chicago from Germany in 1966 to study under Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). He came to the USA for graduate studies in architecture at the IIT. The most notable works of Jahn are the Sony Centre on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin built in 2000 and the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok.ĭescribed for his "progressive architecture", his buildings have received numerous design awards and have been represented in architectural exhibitions around the world.īorn in Germany, Jahn graduated from the Technische Hochschule in Munich. In August, a company owned and led by the architect, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection. He was also known for United Airlines Terminal 1 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. The post-Helmut Jahn era has included at least one bump so far. Helmut Jahn was best known for his James R Thompson Center which is currently under threat for demolition. Image courtesy of Chicago Architecture Center In this, his latest book, his career is viewed from its. Local police said that he was hit by two cars going in opposite directions after he failed to stop at an intersection, but details about the accident are yet to be confirmed. The future is never wrong - has long been the credo of German-American architect Helmut Jahn. Jahn was struck by two cars while riding his bicycle in Campton Hills, about 60 miles west of Chicago. He moved to Chicago in 1966 to study under legendary architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a creator of modernist architecture, at the Illinois Institute of Technology.The famed German-American architect Helmut Jahn, who designed the postmodern James R Thompson Center, has died in a bicycle accident on Saturday afternoon, reported by Chicago Tribune.
Authorities say the driver of one of the vehicles that struck Jahn was taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.Ī profile posted on the website of his firm, Jahn, says he was born in Germany in 1940 and graduated from Technische Hochschule in Munich. Jahn was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Always mindful of energy and cost efficiency, and yet convinced that buildings should enjoy a variety of colors, patterns, and textures, Jahn created. Jahn failed to stop at a stop sign at an intersection and was struck by the two vehicles, headed in opposite directions, Campton Hills Police Chief Steven Miller said in a news release. The buildings of German-American architect Helmut Jahn (born 1940) dramatically combine the modernist, glass-skinned style of Mies van der Rohe with traditional architectural imagery. Jahn, 81, was struck Saturday afternoon while riding north on a village street in Campton Hills, about 55 miles east of Chicago.
Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.ĬHICAGO - Helmut Jahn, a prominent German architect who designed Hy-Vee Arena, previously Kemper Arena and Kansas City’s Bartle Hall, was killed when two vehicles struck the bicycle he was riding in Illinois. As the architecture world mourns Helmut Jahn’s death from a cycling accident Saturday in the western suburbs, the next few months are likely to go a long way toward determining the fate of the. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.