We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable. — Bjarke Ingels Active Copy Share Image
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth. — Bjarke Ingels Earth Copy Share Image
It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring. — Bjarke Ingels Boring Copy Share Image
Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world. — Bjarke Ingels Change Copy Share Image
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 Bad Copy Share Image
I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities… — Bjarke Ingels Ball Copy Share Image
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout… — Bjarke Ingels Around Copy Share Image
Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of… — Bjarke Ingels Architecture Copy Share Image
A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that… — Bjarke Ingels Build Copy Share Image
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 Architecture Copy Share Image
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but… — Bjarke Ingels America Copy Share Image
When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going… — Bjarke Ingels America 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… — Bjarke Ingels Architecture Copy Share Image
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 Also Copy Share Image
The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space,… — Bjarke Ingels Architecture 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 Architecture Copy Share Image
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of… — Bjarke Ingels Actually Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School… — Bjarke Ingels Academy Copy Share Image
Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced… — Bjarke Ingels Colleagues Copy Share Image
I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the… — Bjarke Ingels Always Copy Share Image
Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape. — Bjarke Ingels Abstract Copy Share Image
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. — Bjarke Ingels Avant garde Copy Share Image
Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made… — Bjarke Ingels Because Copy Share Image
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. — Bjarke Ingels Design Copy Share Image
If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or… — Bjarke Ingels Achieve Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. — Bjarke Ingels Architecture Copy Share Image
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a… — Bjarke Ingels Cause Copy Share Image
If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out… — Bjarke Ingels Equality Copy Share Image
In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public… — Bjarke Ingels Cars Copy Share Image
St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's… — Bjarke Ingels Birds Copy Share Image
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the… — Bjarke Ingels Beautiful Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of… — Bjarke Ingels Economic growth Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into… — Bjarke Ingels Anything 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 Brain 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 Architecture Copy Share Image
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear.… — Bjarke Ingels Brilliant Copy Share Image
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that… — Bjarke Ingels Alter Copy Share Image
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big… — Bjarke Ingels Accommodate Copy Share Image
