The great question in Danish architecture was always: what should a building look like? Bjarke Ingels asked a different one: what should it actually do?
Bjarke Ingels was born in 1974. He studied in Copenhagen and Barcelona, worked for Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, then came home and started building.
His firm BIG — Bjarke Ingels Group — now has offices on four continents and projects in more countries than most architecture firms have ever worked in. But the thinking has stayed Danish: a building should make the place around it better, or it has not done its job.
