Bjarke Ingels Quotes

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.
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.
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.
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.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
I almost never listen to the radio.
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.
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.
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.
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.
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.
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.
If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.
If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.
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.
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.
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Bjarke Ingels
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