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When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

~Bjarke Ingels

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A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

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Topics: Build Inhabit Kid Play Possibility Through Want World

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It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

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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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Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

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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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New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling.

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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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I almost never listen to the radio.

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My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Architect

Born: October 2nd, 1974

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