Bjarke Ingels

In 2005, Bjarke Ingels opened his own office, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), having co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 and collaborated with Rem Koolhaas at OMA. 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 combines astute analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humour. In 2004, he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale by the Stavanger Concert House, and the following year he received the Forum AID Award for VM Houses. Practicing the Bjarke Ingels likes to describe it as “programmatic alchemy, ‘BIG often mixes conventional ingredients, such as life, leisure, work, parking and shopping in new forms of symbiotic culture.

Alongside his architecture studio, Bjarke has been active as a visiting professor at Rice University’s School of Architecture, and more recently at Harvard University’s School of Design.