Danish - Architect | October 2, 1974 -
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.
Bjarke Ingels
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Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
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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.
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I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and retail in shopping malls. But you fail to exploit the possibility of symbiosis or synthesis that way.
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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.
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Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.
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