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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Brain Buildings Created Exploit Fail Malls Modernist Neighborhoods Office Parks Planning Possibility Put Retail Shopping Spaces Suburban Suburbs Synthesis Traditional Way You

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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

Topics: Avant-Garde Because Boring Frustrated Hides Highly Incomprehensible Itself Often Real Real World The Real World Think World I Think

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Also Architects Beautiful Become Buildings Channel Cities Designers Ecology Economy Flow Just Only Our People Resources Sculptures Systems Through Where

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Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.

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Topics: Because Cities How Made Our Polluted Them

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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.

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Topics: Accommodate Architecture Big Big Idea Forms Idea Ideology Life Like Lot More Product Rarely Really Shaped Single Think I Think

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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

Topics: Always Best Come Idea Job Make Sure Up Wins

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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

Topics: Able Achieve Collaborators Morons Only Transmit Trying Will You Your

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Birds City Earth Like Little Paradise Parks Singing Trees Water Wonderful You

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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.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Actually Also Decade Every Evidence Faster Getting Innovation Points Roughly Shows Smarter Speed Iq

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If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.

~Bjarke Ingels

Topics: Achieved Actually Ceo Crying Denmark Equality Fully Grew Hire Loud Our Out Places Political Political System Practically System Up Where Woman Would

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Architect

Born: October 2nd, 1974

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