Bjarke Ingels: Users are the experts in architecture

For Bjarke Ingels users are the experts when it comes to understanding how to design a building for a specific function.

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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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Bjarke Ingels is not interested in architecture that has preconceived ideas about its use, with little regard for what it is actually going to be doing in the world.

I don’t believe in architecture as some preconceived idea, says Ingels.

For Ingels, architecture is about creating communities. Understanding what a building will be used for as departure point, Ingels believes in making informed design decisions with comprehensive information.

Our buildings look different because they perform different, he says.

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Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
Talks • Duration: 00:41:22 • 13 Sep 12
For Bjarke Ingels, architects are more than just designers of beautiful facades. He considers the expanded role of architects in contemporary society.>