Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture.… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
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… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share
