Quotes by Bjarke Ingels - Page 1

New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling.
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Ideal
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Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.
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Trying
Change World People
Change World Change The World
Change The World
Could
Instead
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It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.
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Lectures
Legendary
Architectural
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Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
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Positive
Design
Effects
Our World
Social
Side
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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Architecture
Different
Different Life
Forms
Possible
Means
Life Forms
Making
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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.
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Job
Sure
Idea
Wins
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We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.
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Design
Active
Machinery
Reliance
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The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
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Amount
Humans
One Thing
Planet Earth
Share
Estate
Inhabit
Limited
Planet
Real Estate
The One Thing
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Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.
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Cities
Polluted
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If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.
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Collaborators
Transmit
Morons
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Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.
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Abstract
Access
Surroundings
Physical
Shape
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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
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Architecture
Block
Building
House
Vocabulary
Either
Limited
Town
Restricted
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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.
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Possibility
Build
Through
Inhabit
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I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.
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Good Bad Doing
Implies
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I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring.
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Avant Garde
Frustrated
Real World
Hides
Incomprehensible
The Real World
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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.
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Design
Dilemma
Moral
Political
Sacrifice
Sustainability
Like
Cause
Challenge
Some
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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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Architecture
Science
Big Picture
Cities
Fit
Our Lives
Want
Way
Picture
Live
Big
Sure
Buildings
Making
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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.
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Architecture
Space
Crash
Drawing
Ideas
Outer Space
Life Space Believe
Come
Anything
Anything Else
Board
Else
Evolutionary
Outer
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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.
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Faster
Innovation
Smarter
Speed
Decade
Iq
Roughly
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I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
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Capacity
Complexity
Computer
Data
Information
Maximum
Minimum
Programmers
Transmit
Definition
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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.
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Architecture
Accommodate
Ideology
Big Idea
Forms
Life Forms
Shaped
Product
Rarely
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St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.
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Parks
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I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
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Small Country
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When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
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Miraculous
Timing
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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.
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Organisation
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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.
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Geology
Human Beings
Planet Earth
Alter
Architects
Beings
Existing
Modify
Planet
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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.
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Communicate
Drawing
Layout
Skills
Express
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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.
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Architecture
Academy
Cartoon
Danish
Royal
Smitten
Enrolled
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Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.
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Appeals
Colleagues
Gender
Orientation
Work Religion People
Sexual
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Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.
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Decades
Digital
Economic Growth
Innovation
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Wave
Growth Innovation Economic Growth
Engine
Realm
Tidal
Valley
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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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Car
Commitment
Copenhagen
Creating
Equal
Long Term
Movement
Transportation
Forms
Public
Pedestrian
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Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure.
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Exposure
Flow
Simulate
Sophisticated
Structure
Thermal
Urban
Calculate
Environments
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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.
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Architect
Comic
Drawing
Good Energy People
Animals
Buildings
Comic Books
Environments
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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.
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Ceo
Denmark
Loud
Achieved
Crying
Hire
Practically
Political System
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One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.
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Architecture
Certain
Seems
Type
Actually
General
Catch-22
Commissioned
Dilemmas
Incredibly
Types
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People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?
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Architecture
Environment
Parameters
Profession
Understanding
World People Understanding
Concerns
Considerations
Outside
Perhaps
Physical
Processes
Shape
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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.
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Brain
Malls
Office
Parks
Planning
Possibility
Retail
Shopping
Synthesis
Traditional
Buildings
Exploit
Fail
Modernist
Neighborhoods
Residential
Spaces
Suburban
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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.
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Cities
Ecology
Flow
Resources
Also
Architects
Become
Buildings
Through
Channel
Designers
Sculptures
Systems
Where
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When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.
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Architecture
Boring
Good Old Days
Modern
Old Days
Today
Towers
Started
Why
Becomes
Days
Buildings
Idea
Old
Ornament
Practical
Studying
Tell
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The 'International Style of Modernism' came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet.
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Architecture
Advent
Identical
Machinery
Modernism
Basement
Buildings
Container
Essentially
In The End
Services
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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. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
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Brilliant
Fathom
Mortals
Ordinary
Banal
Explain
Necessarily
No Sense
Understandable
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