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Bjarke Ingels Quotes

born 1974 Denmark

Bjarke Ingels (born 2 October 1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG).

Denmark
Architects

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Ideas migrate, structures grow and concepts develop in a form of architectural evolution.

Yes is More (2010)

We need a new manifesto for hedonistic sustainability!

Yes is More (2010)

What if we didn't have to adapt our lifestyle to sustainability, but adjusted our sustainable designs to the way we want to live? Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

Yes is More (2010)

It is through improvisation and adaptation to unanticipated obstacles that we make our biggest breakthroughs.

Yes is More (2010)

Wind power: only 0.6% [of world energy production] and you have a very large untapped potential... Mostly the closer you get to the poles, the more wind power potential, especially offshore.

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

Architecture is never triggered by a single event... conceived by a single mind... shaped by a single hand.

Yes is More (2010)

Also there's the idea of planting forests to sequester carbon, but we would have to plant the entire land mass of earth every third year... so it can only be part of a solution.

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

What if we could focus on examples where sustainability... increases the quality of life? Where a sustainable life isn't pain—but pleasure!

Yes is More (2010)

A radically different example of hedonistic sustainability and urban ecology... that we spent the last nine years making... [T]his is the cleanest waste-to-energy power plant in the world.

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

But in watchmaking and... architecture the hardware is... the software.

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

Sustainable ideas crystallize through an immensity of wasted efforts. ...Good ideas are sometimes resurrected from fossils of past evolutions.

Yes is More (2010)

As human beings we have the power to imagine our world, to create... and cocreate... and to cohabit it.

Urban Talks: Bjarke Ingels (2024)

So of all the different sources wind and solar seems to be the best...

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

The grill, the barbecue is... a cross-ventilated chimney so... chefs can stand... as cold as possible with the fire...

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

The lounge... fireplace... is... traditional Danish red brick, and to make it bright on the inside... a white clay brick...

Bjarke Ingels Lecture (2020)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bjarke Ingels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.