Bjarke Ingels

A lecture by Bjarke Ingels, founding partner of Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona - based Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) with response by Amale Andraos, Dean of Columbia GSAPP. BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes. Like a form of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms. Bjarke Ingels found