Bjarke Ingels is Founding Partner of BIG, Bjarke Ingels Group based in Copenhagen.
Through a series of commissions won in design and architectural competitions BIG quickly attained international recognition. The architectural practice’s work combines astute analysis, lighthearted experimentation, social responsibility and humor.
Bjarke Ingels studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen and the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona, receiving his diploma in 1998. As a 3rd year student he set up his first practice and won his first competition. From 1998-2001 he worked for the Office of Metropolitan Architecture and Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam. He was co-founder of the architectural firm PLOT Architects in 2001.
He was awarded the European Prize for Architecture in 2010, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2004 for the Stavanger Concert House, and the Forum AID Award for the VM Houses in 2005. The Mountain, a concept for providing housing and parking space in Ørestad, received numerous awards including the World Architecture Festival Housing Award, Forum Aid Award and the MIPIM Residential Development Award.
Bjarke Ingels is the author of Yes is more: an archicomic on architectural evolution. He is also author of the contribution “The joys of economy, toward a hedonistic sustainability” in Re-inventing construction published by Ruby Press in 2010. Key projects include the Faroe Islands Education Centre, Thorshavn; Shenzhen International Energy Mansion; Danish pavilion, EXPO 2010, Shanghai; and Mountain Dwellings, Ørestad, Cophenhagen. Bjarke Ingels has been a Visiting Professor at Rice University School of Architecture in Houston, Harvard University GSD, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, all in the USA.
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.
last update: 18-July-2011