Bjarke Ingels quotes

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority. (Bjarke Ingels)
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. View quote
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I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. View quote
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In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. View quote
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Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. View quote
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Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. View quote
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I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms. View quote
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If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons. View quote
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You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology. View quote
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Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world. View quote
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. (Bjarke Ingels)
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board. View quote
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I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins. View quote
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A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit. View quote
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All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect. View quote
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My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them. View quote
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Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them. View quote
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Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion. View quote
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I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'. View quote
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All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster. View quote
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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. (Bjarke Ingels)
New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling. View quote
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The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth. View quote
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