Bjarke Ingels

Med udstillingen "YES IS MORE" zoomer Dansk Arkitektur Center (DAC) ind på en af dansk arkitekturs mest succesfulde og nyskabende arkitektvirksomheder BIG - BJARKE INGELS GROUP

An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

Yes is More

Virginia L

when we work we always have a client, a need to fulfill or a demand to meet. But we try to look beyond, and see if there are any hidden resources or any latent potential that can be activated.

Bjarke Ingels is a Yes man. He says yes to just about any demand.

It is a surprising text, one of the best architecture books I’ve ever read. 
Because

- like someone said *, it’s a sort of catalog of contemporary architecture. On one hand you can find all the common ‘’elements of grammar’’ of today’s architects, on the other hand you understand shapes, recurrent schemes that otherwise remain extravagances, just iconic objects. Easy, for everyone.
- It doesn’t care about ‘’how an architecture book should appear’’. As it does it with everything else. It finds its way: it uses colors, renders, collages, a very informal language, exclamation marks, excited manners and… it uses comics – no matter how weird could seem at first.
- it really shows what does it mean a creative thought, that takes advantages from the circumstances. The real lesson that University tries to teach to every student. The lesson that it is hard to learn everyday and the essence of an architect. You will always face something, someone: a professor, a client, a site, a law, a budget, an idea, a wrong request. You may object to, or you can create.
- It is a look behind the scene - not too much – that allows you to understand something about an international architecture studio as BIG. Why there are recurrent shapes and ideas that seem a brand, what to do in front a request of a competition, how to convince a client, the importance of multidisciplinary and so on. It is very particular even the accent on the realization issue: you would not expect that a famous studio like this builds really ‘’few’’ things compared to the creative production. Somehow something at the end of the process fails, and this is another focus point that every architect faces in his work. Even a Yes Man.

*Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi – Press/Tletter

Yes is More An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

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