Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them. Bjarke Ingels More Quotes by Bjarke Ingels More Quotes From 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. Bjarke Ingels picture architecture science art 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 challenge sacrifice design political 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 drawing architecture life believe 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. Bjarke Ingels place good drawing people 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. Bjarke Ingels buildings through beautiful people 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. Bjarke Ingels good me you today I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing. Bjarke Ingels bad good think you 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. Bjarke Ingels royal architecture art school 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 make best job always Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects. Bjarke Ingels environmental design positive world The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth. Bjarke Ingels real-estate one-thing real earth 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. Bjarke Ingels help story drawing skills For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible. Bjarke Ingels end me architecture life 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 think single architecture life Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world. Bjarke Ingels change-the-world change people world 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. Bjarke Ingels kid want play world If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons. Bjarke Ingels your will you achieve 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? Bjarke Ingels environment architecture people world 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. Bjarke Ingels city transportation equal commitment It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring. Bjarke Ingels how legendary lectures boring
