Architecture & Interiors/2012/41 min/Reel № 12.001
ByBjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
I Am Not a Designer/Recorded 2012
A close reading, kept within reach.
Bjarke Ingels takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in Denmark in 2012, the conversation is grounded in Bjarke's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
For Bjarke Ingels, architects are more than just designers of beautiful facades. He considers the expanded role of architects in contemporary society.
About the speaker
Bjarke Ingels
Copenhagen/Denmark
Bjarke Ingels is a member of a new generation of architects that combine shrewd analysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humour.
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