Through careful analysis of various parameters from local culture and climate, ever-changing patterns of contemporary life, to the ebbs and flows of the global economy, Bjarke believes in the idea of information-driven-design as the driving force for his design process. Bjarke defines architecture as the art and science of making sure our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. By hitting the fertile overlap between pragmatic and utopia, we architects once again find the freedom to change the surface of our planet, to better fit contemporary life forms.īIG is led by a global group of Partners: Bjarke Ingels, Sheela Maini Søgaard, Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Thomas Christoffersen, Finn Nørkjær, David Zahle, Jakob Lange, Andreas Klok Pedersen, Daniel Sundlin, Jakob Sand, Brian Yang, Beat Schenk, Agustin Perez-Torres, Martin Voelkle, Leon Rost, Catherine Huang, Ole Elkjær-Larsen, Andy Young, Lorenzo Boddi, João Albuquerque, Douglass Alligood, Lars Larsen, Giulia Frittoli, and Daria Pahhota.Īssociates: Ziad Shehab, Sören Grünert, Jeremy Alain Siegel, Andreas Buettner, Michelle Stromsta, Linus Saavedra, Aran Coakley, Kristian Hindsberg, Elizabeth McDonald, Blake Smith, Alana Goldweit, Agla Egilsdottir, Dominyka Voelkle, Jason Wu, Julie Kaufman, Kate Cella, Lawrence-Oliver Mahadoo, Lorenz Krisai, Margaret Tyrpa, Otilia Pupezeanu, Pauline Lavie-Luong, Sebastian Claussnitzer, Simon Scheller, Yu Inamoto (NYC) Frederik Lyng, Matthew Oravec, Nanna Gyldholm Møller, Eva Seo-Andersen, Per Bo Madsen, Snorre Nash, Enea Michelesio, Kekoa Charlot, Andrea Hektor, Hung Kai Liao, Jinho Lee, Laurent de Carniere, Lucas Carriere, Marie Lancon, ‘Molly’ Hsiao Rou Huang, Robert Grimm, Sarkis Sarkisyan, Shane Dalke, Søren Martinussen, Vinish Sethi, Jakob Henke, Jelena Vucic (CPH) Alexandru Malaescu, Chris Falla, Isabel da Silva, Jason Chee Han Chia, Lauren Connell Falla, Ryohei Koike (LON) Maria Sole Bravo, Hanna Johansson and Ángel Barreno Gutiérrez (BCN).ĭirectors: Anne Brown Frandsen (CFO), Alexander Bøegh (CTO), Allison Wicks, Nathan Smith, (Business Development), Eric Li ( BIG Asia), Jan Leenknegt, Jens Majdal Kaarsholm (BIM), Jeffrey Shumaker (Urban Planning), Francesca Portesine (Interiors), Florencia Kratsman (Space Planning), Ricardo Candel and Andrea Hektor (Engineering), Stine Sandstrøm Christensen, Richard Ebert (Legal), Nicolas Kastbjerg, Sean Franklin, Henriette Helstrup, German de la Torre (Managing Directors), Kristian Palsmar (IT).īIG’s Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement 2018ījarke Ingels founded BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group in 2005 after co-founding PLOT Architects in 2001 and working at OMA in Rotterdam. Like a form of programmatic alchemy, we create architecture by mixing conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping. A pragmatic utopian architecture that steers clear of the petrifying pragmatism of boring boxes and the naïve utopian ideas of digital formalism. We believe that in order to deal with today’s challenges, architecture can profitably move into a field that has been largely unexplored. Not least due to the influence from multicultural exchange, global economical flows and communication technologies, that all together require new ways of architectural and urban organization.
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes.
The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelona based group of architects, designers, urbanists, landscape professionals, interior and product designers, researchers and inventors.