Bjarke Ingels Quotes

Building design isn't trendy.

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

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

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

Among the things I love about London is that there is a lot of green space and that the buildings are not very tall.

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

My first degree was in structural engineering, which is super-boring.

I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal with efficiency, the function, the structure.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.