HELMUT JAHN | TRANSPARENCY | TRANSPARENZ
Werner Blaser
Werner Blaser: HELMUT JAHN | TRANSPARENCY | TRANSPARENZ. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 1996. First edition. INSCRIBED with a drawing by Helmut Jahn [see image]. Text in English and German. A near fine hard cover book in a very good dust jacket with minor shelf wear: front flap is slightly rumpled. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print.
Inscribed by Helmut Jahn with a drawing on half-title page.
12.5 x 12 hard cover book with 204 pages profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white of Jahn's work from 1976–1996. Also includes a look at the history of "transparent" architecture in essays by Charles Fowler, Jules Saulnier, and George Wymann.
Following his arrival to the U.S. in the early 1970s from Germany, the Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn has been lauded by some of the industry’s best for his innovative postmodern steel-and-glass structures. His notable works include the SONY Center in Berlin and the University of Chicago Campus.