Category Archives: Bjarke Ingels

The [not so] Fine Line – A Conversation with Sophie Lovell

From left to right: Herzog & De Meuron, Zaha Hadid, Rafael Moneo, Alvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, PEter Eisenman, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Bjarke Ingels, Rem Koolhaas, Zvi Hecker, myself, Preston Scott Cohen, Michael Meredith, and Hilary Sample. Missing are Reyner Banham and François Dallegret, who were edited out because ofContinue reading “The [not so] Fine Line – A Conversation with Sophie Lovell”

Julien de Smedt: On a scale of hybrid – Illustration for A10 #60

Click to enlarge In your view, how do design and architecture relate? It starts with architecture; that’s what I have been involved in the longest. MWA [Makers With Agendas] is an extension of that, but in some ways it goes further. It is easier distributed and available for more people. A building is a singleContinue reading “Julien de Smedt: On a scale of hybrid – Illustration for A10 #60”

But today we collect Gags (short text for The Importance of the Way Stories are Being Told)

Click to enlarge But today we collect Gags [and gigs, and schticks] Gropius wrote a book on grain silos, Le Corbusier one on aeroplanes, and Charlotte Periand brought a new object to the office every morning, But today we collect ads.[i] Today (today), Rem Koolhaas writes big fat books and reinvents OMA each ten yearsContinue reading “But today we collect Gags (short text for The Importance of the Way Stories are Being Told)”

Tell me more! (Article for Conditions magazine #10: Gossip)

click to enlarge (…) Digging into the dirty laundry of the architectural star-system is, in any case, neither a recent phenomenon nor a curiosity exclusively circumscribed to today’s divas. The mouth-to-ear airing of our architectural heroes’ private sins has been an inevitable aside of their rise as idols. Small talk on the lower passions ofContinue reading “Tell me more! (Article for Conditions magazine #10: Gossip)”

YES IS MORE or Less [Zoom!/zzzzrrtt!/thud!/blaam! – me not] – Full text

“If the passage falls below the levels of ponderous literacy and pedantically accurate spelling… the use of imagery has a knowing exactitude which overleaps conventional architecture-magazine rhetoric of the period, by-passes the reader’s normal verbal defence [sic]mechanisms, and thus produced a distinct shift in sensibility.” (Peter Reyner Banham: Megastructure: urban futures of the recent past,Continue reading “YES IS MORE or Less [Zoom!/zzzzrrtt!/thud!/blaam! – me not] – Full text”

YES IS MORE or Less [Zoom!/zzzzrrtt!/thud!/blaam! – me not] – Klaus in CLOG Magazine 01

I rarely publish articles under Klaus’s name (I have a whole different personality just for that). However, when Kyle May approached me in order to collaborate with a short review (a sketch of an article rather than a long text) on BIG´s “Yes Is More”  in the debut issue of Clog Magazine, it seemed mostContinue reading “YES IS MORE or Less [Zoom!/zzzzrrtt!/thud!/blaam! – me not] – Klaus in CLOG Magazine 01”