Bjarke Ingels Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous Bjarke Ingels quotes and sayings (architect). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.”
“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.”
“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 express the stories and communicate them.”
“Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.”
“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.”
“You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.”
“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.”
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