Bjarke Ingels Join us for an insightful, and at times, humorous presentation with Bjarke Ingels. Bjarke will discuss how architecture evolves from the collision of political, economical and social interests, as General Session &
In 2004, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Stavanger Concert House, and the following year he received the Forum AID Award for the VM Houses. His latest completed project, The Mountain, has received numerous awards including the World Architecture Festival Housing Award, Forum Aid Award and the MIPIM Residential Development Award. By practicing what Bjarke Ingels likes to describe as ’programmatic alchemy’, BIG often mixes conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping into new forms of symbiotic culture. Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has been active as a Visiting Professor at Rice University’s School of Architecture and most recently at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Bjarke currently holds a guest lecturer position at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
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well as interests yet unnamed and unforeseen. He will expose the behind-the-scenes story of how architecture happens, how ideas take form and how shapes evolve. Architecture is never triggered by a single event, never conceived by a single mind, and never shaped by a single hand. Neither is it the direct materialization of a personal agenda, but rather the result of an ongoing adaptation to the multiple conflicting forces through society. Architects don’t control the city - they can only aspire to intervene.
Keynote Address:
Wednesday, May 12th
10:00am
Grand Ballroom-PCC
About Bjarke Ingels:
He started Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects that combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humor.
Visit his website at www.big.dk/.
Watch Bjarke at the TED Conference.