Bjarke Ingels
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Bjarke Ingels is a Danish
architect
. He heads the architectural practice
Bjarke Ingels Group
which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi. In his designs, Bjarke Ingels often tries to achieve a balance between playful and practical approaches to architecture.
at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona
, receiving his diploma in 1999. As a third year student he set up his first practice and won his first competition. From 1998-2001 he worked for Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas
in Rotterdam
.
In 2001, Bjarke Ingels returned to Copenhagen to set up the architectural practice PLOT together with Belgian
OMA colleague Julien de Smedt
. The company rapidly achieved success, receiving significant national and international attention for their inventive designs. They were awarded a Golden Lion
at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
in 2004 for a proposal for a new music house for Stavanger
, Norway. Their first major achievement was the award-winning VM Houses in Ørestad
, Copenhagen, in 2005. Despite its success, PLOT was disbanded in January 2006 and Bjarke Ingels created Bjarke Ingels Group
, BIG, while his former partner founded JDS / JULIEN DE SMEDT ARCHITECTS.
for 'people' for Shanghai
, a masterplan for the redevelopment of a former naval base and oil industry wasteland into a zero-emission
resort and entertainment city off the coast of Baku
, Azerbaijan
, shaped as the seven mountains of the country, and a museum overlooking Mexico City
.
Under the BIG Banner Bjarke recently published "Yes is more - an archcomic on architectural evolution".
On 24 July 2009, he spoke at the prestigious TED event in Oxford, UK.
He presented the case study “Hedonistic sustainability” in the workshop Manage complexity - With integral solutions to an economy of means at the 3rd International Holcim Forum
2010 in Mexico City and shall be a member of the Holcim Awards
regional jury for Europe in 2011.
, and is currently at the Yale School of Architecture
and Columbia University
's Graduate School of Architecture.
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
. He heads the architectural practice
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is an international architectural firm founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2010 it opened a branch office in New York City...
which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi. In his designs, Bjarke Ingels often tries to achieve a balance between playful and practical approaches to architecture.
Early career
Bjarke Ingels studied architectureArchitecture
Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, receiving his diploma in 1999. As a third year student he set up his first practice and won his first competition. From 1998-2001 he worked for Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...
in Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...
.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
OMA colleague Julien de Smedt
Julien De Smedt
Julien De Smedt is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural practice Julien De Smedt Architects Julien De Smedt (born 3 December 1975 in Brussels) is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural...
. The company rapidly achieved success, receiving significant national and international attention for their inventive designs. They were awarded a Golden Lion
Golden Lion
Il Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
Venice Biennale of architecture
Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, the Architecture section of the Venice Biennale, was established in 1980, although architecture had been a part of the art biennale since 1968....
in 2004 for a proposal for a new music house for Stavanger
Stavanger
Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...
, Norway. Their first major achievement was the award-winning VM Houses in Ørestad
Ørestad
Ørestad is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager. It is expected that 20,000 people will live in Ørestad, 20,000 will study, and 80,000 people will be employed in the area...
, Copenhagen, in 2005. Despite its success, PLOT was disbanded in January 2006 and Bjarke Ingels created Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels Group, often referred to as BIG, is an international architectural firm founded in 2005 by Bjarke Ingels in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2010 it opened a branch office in New York City...
, BIG, while his former partner founded JDS / JULIEN DE SMEDT ARCHITECTS.
Bjarke Ingels Group
With BIG, Bjarke Ingels has continued the ideology from PLOT and has several major projects under construction or development both in Denmark and abroad. These include 8 House in Ørestad and the new Danish national Maritime museum in Elsinore, hotel projects in Norway, a highrise designed in the shape of the Chinese characterChinese character
Chinese characters are logograms used in the writing of Chinese and Japanese , less frequently Korean , formerly Vietnamese , or other languages...
for 'people' for Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
, a masterplan for the redevelopment of a former naval base and oil industry wasteland into a zero-emission
Carbon offset
A carbon offset is a reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases made in order to compensate for or to offset an emission made elsewhere....
resort and entertainment city off the coast of Baku
Baku
Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
, shaped as the seven mountains of the country, and a museum overlooking Mexico City
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
.
Under the BIG Banner Bjarke recently published "Yes is more - an archcomic on architectural evolution".
On 24 July 2009, he spoke at the prestigious TED event in Oxford, UK.
He presented the case study “Hedonistic sustainability” in the workshop Manage complexity - With integral solutions to an economy of means at the 3rd International Holcim Forum
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction is a non-profit organization. Its goal is to raise awareness to the role that architecture, engineering, urban planning and construction have in achieving a sustainable built future...
2010 in Mexico City and shall be a member of the Holcim Awards
Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction
The Holcim Awards is an international competition that seeks projects and visions in sustainable construction – irrespective of scale. A total of USD 2 million dollars in prize money is awarded in each three-year cycle....
regional jury for Europe in 2011.
Design philosophy
Explaining his design ideas, Bjarke Ingels states:Academia
Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has been active as a Visiting Professor at the Rice University School of Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of DesignHarvard Graduate School of Design
The Harvard Graduate School of Design is a graduate school at Harvard University offering degrees in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Planning and Design.-History:...
, and is currently at the Yale School of Architecture
Yale School of Architecture
The Yale School of Architecture is one of the constituent professional schools of Yale University. It is generally considered to be one of the most prestigious architecture schools in the world.- History :...
and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
's Graduate School of Architecture.
Selected projects
- Islands Brygge Harbour BathCopenhagen Harbour BathsCopenhagen Harbour Baths is a system of recreational bathing facilities along the waterfront of Copenhagen, Denmark. There are currently three harbour baths, the first and most well-known of which is located at Islands Brygge...
, 2,500 m2 (completed 2003) - Maritime Youth House, AmagerSundbyøsterSundbyøster is one of the 15 administrative, statistical, and tax city districts comprising the municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark. It lies on the southeast border of the municipality on the island of Amager...
, Denmark (completed 2004) - VM Houses, Ørestad, Denmark (completed 2005)
- Helsingør Psychiatric Hospital, Elsinore, Denmark (completed 2005)
- Sjakket, Copenhagen (completed 2007)
- People's Building, Shanghai, China
- Mountain DwellingsMountain DwellingsMountain Dwellings is an award-winning building in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park. The building is designed by Danish architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group...
, Ørestad, Copenhagen (completed 2008) - National Maritime Museum, Elsinore, Denmark (u/c, completion 2011/12)
- 8 House, Ørestad, Copenhagen (2010)
- Danish pavilion, EXPO 2010, Shanghai, China
- Superkilen, Copenhagen, DK (competition win 2008, completion 2011)
- Zira Island masterplan, BakuBakuBaku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
, Azerbaijan - The Battery, Copenhagen
- New Tamayo MuseumTamayo Contemporary Art MuseumMexico's Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum , located on Paseo de la Reforma, in Mexico City, was opened in 1981 as a repository for the collection that Rufino Tamayo and his wife Olga acquired during their lifetimes and ultimately gifted to the nation...
, Mexico City (competition win, April 2009) - Kaufhauskanal, HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
, Germany (competition win, April 2009) - New Tallinn City Hall, TallinnTallinnTallinn is the capital and largest city of Estonia. It occupies an area of with a population of 414,940. It is situated on the northern coast of the country, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, south of Helsinki, east of Stockholm and west of Saint Petersburg. Tallinn's Old Town is in the list...
, Estonia (competition win, June 2009) - Astana National Library, AstanaAstanaAstana , formerly known as Akmola , Tselinograd and Akmolinsk , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 708,794 as of 1 August 2010...
, Kazakhstan (competition win, August 2009) - Shenzhen International Energy Mansion, ShenzhenShenzhenShenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China's Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China's first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones...
, China (competition win, September 2009) - World Village of Women Sports, MalmöMalmöMalmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
, Sweden (competition win, November 2009). - Faroe Islands Education Centre, Thorshavn, Faroe Islands (competition win, December 2009)
- Amagerforbrænding, Copenhagen, Denmark (competition win 2011)
Awards
- 2001 and 2003 Henning Larsen Prize
- 2002 Nykredits Architecture Prize
- 2003 Scanorama Design Award
- 2004 ar+d award for the Maritime Youth House
- 2004 Golden LionGolden LionIl Leone d’Oro is the highest prize given to a film at the Venice Film Festival. The prize was introduced in 1949 by the organizing committee and is now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes...
, Venice BiennaleVenice BiennaleThe Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
(for Stavanger Concert Hall) - 2006 Forum AID Award, Best Building in Scandinavia in 2006 (for VM Houses)
- 2007 Mies van der Rohe Award Traveling Exhibition – VM Houses
- 2007 Contract World Award for Best Interior (for Sjakket Headquarters)
- 2008 Forum AID AwardForum AID AwardThe Forum AID Award is Nordic architecture and design award handed out annually by the Swedish magazine Forum AID. AID is an acronym for the three subject-matters of the magazine - Architecture, Interior design and Design - and it is also the three categories of the award...
for Best Building in Scandinavia in 2008 (for Mountain Dwellings) - 2008 World Architecture FestivalWorld Architecture FestivalThe World Architecture Festival is an annual event held in Barcelona organised by EMAP, a media group that runs other festivals, including the World Retail Congress and Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, as well as publishes various journals, including within the field of...
Award for Best Residential Building (for Mountain Dwellings) - 2009 ULI Award for Excellence (for Mountain Dwellings)
- 2009 MIPIM Award for best residential development (for Mountain Dwellings)
- 2011 Danish Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize
Exhibitions
- 2007 BIG City, Storefront for Art and ArchitectureStorefront for Art and Architecture' is a contemporary art and architecture institution founded in 1982 in New York City.-Background:Founded in 1982 by Kyong Park, Storefront for Art and Architecture is a nonprofit organization in New York City committed to the advancement of innovative positions in architecture, art and design...
, New York - 2009 Yes is More, Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen
- 2010 Yes is More, CAPC Bordeaux
- 2010 Yes is More, WECHSELRAUM, Stuttgart
External links
- Official web site
- Bjarke Ingels design consultancy KiBiSi.com
- TED Talk, Bjarke Ingels at TEDTED (conference)TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....
- Television interview
- BIG Projects
- webcast at DAC (in Danish)
- Bjarke interviewed for Studio Banana
- 'Yes is More' Talk at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London 2010(video)
- Interview with Bjarke Ingels Archi-Ninja.com