Bjarke Ingels Quotes

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

The future of architecture is culture.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in literally with nothing in my brain about what the building will look like.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

Just taking a piece of dirt and envisioning the building you'd like to put on it - it's an amazing process.

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation.

When you are a designer, what's important is to be aware of things. Everything should lead to an idea, a line to follow, a movement.