Bjarke Ingels Quotes

We need a new for hedonistic sustainability!

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.

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

The work an architect gets to realize... is the result of random opportunities and chance. ...We have to respond to accidental challenges, through opportunistic , and migration of ideas. ...Often the story we tell is ...post-rationalization or hindsight.

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

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

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

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

Historically the field of architecture has been dominated by two opposing extremes. ...[A]n avant-garde of wild ideas, often so detached from reality that they fail to become... other than eccentric curiosities. On the other side... well-organized corporate consultants that build... boring boxes of high standard. Architecture seems entrenched between two... unfertile fronts: either naively utopian or petrifyingly pragmatic. ...BIG operates in the fertile overlap between ...opposites. A pragmatic utopian architecture... creation of socially, economically and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective.