Quotes by Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Ingels

Danish architect and businessman

Lived from: 1974 -

Category: Business and entrepreneurs

Born: 2 october 1974

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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What are the most famous quotes from Bjarke Ingels?

The two most famous quotes from Bjarke Ingels are:

  • "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."
  • "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."

When did Bjarke Ingels live?

Bjarke Ingels is still alive and was born in 1974.