Purple Magazine
— The Brain Issue #33 S/S 2020

bjarke ingels

ARCHITECTURE interview by EMILIEN CRESPO photography by MARCELO KRASILCIC the prolific new york-based danish architect whose mantra is “hedonistic sustainability” has a “master planet” plan in the works EMILIEN CRESPO — You’re from a new generation of architects. What do you attribute your success to? BJARKE INGELS — First of all, I think youth is something that time has cured [laughs], so there is that. The avant-garde has a tendency to be angry young rebels who are disenfranchised from the world. And revolutionary movements are always about opposition, a rebellion against something, but I was always more interested in trying to look at the possibilities. Rather than clearly choosing sides — “this is right, and this is wrong” — a lot of things are often actually quite good and could be even better. Architecture and urbanism are very much about accommodating everybody, saying yes to everybody. Enrich reality by accommodating and embracing all of…

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