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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Architecture Art Big Big Picture Buildings Cities Fit Live Lives Making Our Our Lives Picture Science Sure Want Way

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Amount Earth Estate Humans Inhabit Limited One Thing Planet Planet Earth Real Real Estate Same Share The One Thing Thing Which

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Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

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Topics: Design Effects Environmental Our Our World Positive Side Social World

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Actually Banal Brilliant Explain Fact Fathom Just Makes Mean Means Might Mortals Necessarily No Sense Ordinary Sense Something Understandable You

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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Architecture Different Different Life End Forms Life Making Me Means Possible

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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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Topics: Architecture Block Building Either House Limited Restricted Town Vocabulary

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Anyone Ball Creating Focus Growth Opportunities Organisation Really Willing Work

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Cause Challenge Design Dilemma Like Moral Political Sacrifice Some Sort Sustainability

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Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Change Change The World Could Instead People Trying World

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Anything Anything Else Architecture Believe Board Come Crash Drawing Else Evolutionary Evolve Ideas Life Outer Outer Space Space I Believe I Believe That

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Architect

Born: October 2nd, 1974

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