Brian Yang, Beat Schenk, Andreas Pedersen, Bjarke Ingels, Jakob Lange, Adams Kara Taylor, Thomas Christoffersen, Daniel Sundlin, Gabrielle Nadeau, Camille Crepin, Edouard Boisse, Tiina Liisa Juuti, Alexandre Carpentier, Jakob Henke, Hanna Johansson, David Zahle, Finn Nørkjær, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Sheela Maini Søgaard
Bjarke Ingels (Copenhagen, 1974) is a Danish architect and founder of BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group - active since 2005, now with more than 400 employees and offices in Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona. Ingels is a brilliant personality recognised outside his professional sphere. In 2016 TIME Magazine included him on its list of the world's hundred most influential personalities. Rem Koolhaas compared him to a Silicon Valley tech mogul. Koolhaas stated that he does not consider him the reincarnation of one or another architect from the past but rather a new type of designer who responds perfectly to the spirit of his times.
Ingels' architecture career began at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, followed by a course of studies at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona and, from 1998, work at OMA in Rotterdam. In 2001, back in Denmark, he founded the PLOT architectural practice with Julien De Smedt, which he closed a few years later to open BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group).
Among Ingels' best-known architecture projects are: VIA 57 West in New York (2016), a mixture of the European-style courtyard residential building and the American skyscraper; the Danish National Maritime Museum in Helsingør (2013); the Serpentine Pavilion 2016 in London; the Lego House in Billund (2017), conceived as an infinite repetition of the brick module, on all scales; CopenHill, in Copenhagen (2019), an architecture/mountain housing an incinerator and a ski slope.
Bjarke Ingels' key architecture concepts are expressed in his best-known publication, Yes Is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (2010), a monograph proposed in the form of an "archi-comic" a name he coined. Ingels' post-ideological and post-modern approach to design is also reflected in numerous design objects. These include multiple lamps designed for Artemide: Alphabet of Light, an open system composed of an abacus of geometric elements from which an illuminated alphabet is generated; the Gople family, whose elementary form enhances the beauty of glass hand-crafted according to an ancient Venetian technique; Stellar Nebula, a family of pendant lamps that reinterprets and enhances the artisanal glass blowing process with innovative finishing techniques; Vine Light, a series of minimalist table and wall lamps that, with just two joints, allows maximum freedom of movement to perfectly illuminate a work surface but also to create multiple lighting scenarios.
Among BIG-designed furniture is Voxel, a modular sofa system produced by Common Seating and inspired by Billund's Lego House, the pixelated style of the Minecraft and Q*bert video games, and by the work of modernist architect Mies van der Rohe. Among Ingels' most recent projects is the Friday smart lock, controlled via smartphone and capable of automatically unlocking a door when it detects the approach of its owner.
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