Lecture's IaaC - IaaC Lecture Series 2008-2009 > Bjarke Ingels

23_01_09 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 Dwellings has already received numerous awards and nominations in 2008, most recently at the World Architecture Festival. By practicing what Bjarke Ingels likes to describe as ’programmatic alchemy’, BIG often mixes conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking andshopping into new forms of symbiotic culture. Image caption: PEOPLE`S BUILDING SHANGHAI Proposal for a hotel, sports and conference center for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai. becomes the chinese sign for \"the People\".

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