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Bjarke Ingels

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Bjarke Ingels

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Danish architect (b.1974)

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Works
6

Top works

  • HOT TO COLD. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation
  • 2G : Ensamble Studio
  • Big - Bjarke Ingels Group
  • Superkilen
  • BIG, HOT TO COLD: An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation

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Country
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Listeners
535
Total plays
606

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Quotes

  • Architecture is never triggered by a single event... conceived by a single mind... shaped by a single hand.
  • Ideas migrate, structures grow and concepts develop in a form of architectural evolution.
  • It is through improvisation and adaptation to unanticipated obstacles that we make our biggest breakthroughs.
  • Sustainable ideas crystallize through an immensity of wasted efforts. ...Good ideas are sometimes resurrected from fossils of past evolutions.
  • The work an architect gets to realize... is the result of random opportunities and chance. ...We have to respond to accidental challenges, through opportunistic , and migration of ideas. ...Often the story we tell is ...post-rationalization or hindsight.
  • What if we could focus on examples where sustainability... increases the quality of life? Where a sustainable life isn't pain—but pleasure!

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Key facts

Born
Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels , ( 1974-10-02 ) 2 October 1974 (age 51) , Copenhagen , Denmark
Alma mater
Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Occupation
Architect
Practice
Bjarke Ingels Group

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Encyclopedic overview

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels ( Danish pronunciation: [ˈpjɑːkə ˈpɔnkɒ ˈe̝ŋˀl̩s]; born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

In Denmark, Ingels became well known after designing two housing complexes in Ørestad: VM Houses and Mountain Dwellings. In 2006 he founded Bjarke Ingels Group, which grew to a staff of 400 by 2015, with noted projects including the 8 House housing complex, VIA 57 West in Manhattan, the Google North Bayshore headquarters (co-designed with Thomas Heatherwick), the Superkilen park, and the Amager Resource Center (ARC) waste-to-energy plant – the latter which incorporates both a ski slope and climbing wall on the building exterior.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bjarke Ingels” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.