Author: Bjarke Ingels

Quotes

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.

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.

- Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

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

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 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.

- Bjarke Ingels

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

- Bjarke Ingels

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.

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

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 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.

- Bjarke Ingels

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 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.

- Bjarke Ingels

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 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.

- Bjarke Ingels

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

- Bjarke Ingels

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