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….