Bjarke Ingels Quotes

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?

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

The future of architecture is culture.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Light is something that can really change your perception of space.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.