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 Read Quote
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. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
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. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrated that the real world is so boring. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
Something like ‘Abstract’ can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape. Bjarke Ingels Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
