Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels started his own office in 2005, Bjarke Ingels Group, after having co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 and collaborating 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 combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humour.
In 2004 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for the Stavanger Concert House, and the following year he received the Forum AID Award for the VM Houses. His latest completed project, The Mountain, has already received numerous awards including the World Architecture Festival Housing Award, Forum Aid Award and the MIPIM Residential Development Award.
By practicing what Bjarke Ingels likes to describe as 'programmatic alchemy', BIG often mixes conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping into new forms of symbiotic culture. Alongside his architectural practice, Bjarke has been active as a Visiting Professor at Rice University's School of Architecture and most recently at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Bjarke currently holds a guest lecturer position at Columbia University's, Graduate School of Architecture.
Project
Tatiana Bilbao
Bjarke Ingels
Introduction
Good friends yet fierce rivals Tatiana Bilbao and Bjarke Ingels are two of the most celebrated young international architects working today. Bjarke, the founder and principal of Danish based BIG, and Tatiana of Tatiana Bilbao S.C in Mexico City became friends during the architectural competition to design the New Tamayo Museum. On Bjarke's recent trip back to Mexico City the two combined on a visual project with Bjarke behind the camera lens and Tatiana's world in front.
