Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Jack Welch
Josh Billings
Sigmund Freud
Amelia Barr
Robert Baden-Powell
Wilson Mizner
All authors
Today's birthdays
1770 - William Wordsworth
1873 - John McGraw
1780 - William Ellery Channing
1938 - Jerry Brown
1945 - Robert Brady
1952 - C. Robert Kehler
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Astronaut
Designer
Athlete
Coach
Architect
Cartoonist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Favorite authors
Bjarke Ingels Quotes
Bjarke Ingels Quotes
Bjarke Ingels
Danish
Architect
Born:
Oct 2
,
1974
Actually
Architecture
Building
People
World
You
Related authors:
Antoni Gaudi
Frank Gehry
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Kahn
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Maya Lin
Walter Gropius
Zaha Hadid
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
Bjarke Ingels
Real Estate
Earth
One Thing
Share
Limited
Real
Same
The One Thing
Estate
Which
Planet
Planet Earth
Inhabit
Thing
Amount
Humans
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
You
Wonderful
Water
Paradise
Singing
Trees
Birds
Earth
City
Parks
Like
Little
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
Political
Cause
Challenge
Sacrifice
Design
Dilemma
Moral
Some
Like
Sort
Sustainability
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
Life
Architecture
Space
Believe
Else
Drawing
Evolutionary
Evolve
Outer
Outer Space
Come
Ideas
Anything
Crash
Anything Else
Board
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
Bjarke Ingels
Positive
Environmental
World
Design
Side
Our
Our World
Effects
Social
Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.
Bjarke Ingels
Change
People
World
Change The World
Could
Instead
Trying
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
You
Achieve
Will
Collaborators
Able
Only
Morons
Trying
Transmit
Your
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?
Bjarke Ingels
People
Architecture
World
Understanding
Considerations
Parameters
Physical
Shape
Outside
Environment
Perhaps
Concerns
Around
How
Lack
Often
Being
Processes
Them
Profession
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.
Bjarke Ingels
Commitment
Car
Pedestrian
City
Long-Term
Equal
Priority
Movement
Where
Forms
Public
Creating
Transportation
Copenhagen
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
Work
Opportunities
Focus
Willing
Ball
Anyone
Organisation
Really
Creating
Growth
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
Bjarke Ingels
Humor
Country
Big
Nothing
Think
Local
Bit
Would
Small
Small Country
Never
Idea
America
Little
Little Bit
Started
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
World
Think
Hides
Boring
Highly
Because
Real
Itself
Often
The Real World
Real World
Frustrated
Avant-Garde
Incomprehensible
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
Bjarke Ingels
Architecture
Building
Vocabulary
Restricted
Town
House
Limited
Block
Either
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
You
Brilliant
Sense
Fathom
Something
Fact
No Sense
Mortals
Makes
Understandable
Banal
Just
Ordinary
Explain
Mean
Might
Means
Actually
Necessarily
Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.
Bjarke Ingels
Work
Religion
People
Opportunities
Some People
Gender
Others
Our
Colleagues
Sexual
Some
More
Than
Maybe
Race
Orientation
Appeals
Present
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
Bjarke Ingels
Love
Beautiful
Definition
Complexity
Minimum
Data
Computer
Very
Maximum
Information
Capacity
Transmit
Programmers
Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.
Bjarke Ingels
Innovation
Digital
Few
Wave
Valley
Focused
Has-Been
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Economic
Economic Growth
Over
Global
Tidal
Been
Very
Decades
Much
Realm
Engine
Growth
Last
No more Bjarke Ingels quotes
Haven't find the right quote? Try quotes from authors related to Bjarke Ingels.
Antoni Gaudi
Frank Gehry
Frank Lloyd Wright
Louis Kahn