Bjarke Ingels "Hedonistic Sustainability"

Bjarke Ingels present the work of BIG with focus on sustainability and the office forthcoming projects in Stockholm. The lecture, held February 15th 2012, was arranged by KTH School of Architecture in collaboration with Oscar Properties.

[@ifeelgoodhere4327]

3:35 BI starts

[@kevinwehrer4605]

I could watch these videos all day

[@CarloEsquivelT]

I have come to realize that is inspiration that gives you the nerve (balls) to sell the unthinkable, and is talent that makes you achieve the unthinkable. Masters like Mr. Ingels and his team, have the opportunity to do it often. Great Lecture!!

[@nicolaasleach]

The 8 building is just mind blowing!!!

[@PeterRockClausen]

Fantastic lecture, I'm from Denmark, studying Software Development, but I have an interest in Architecture too, so watching Bjarke Ingels projects and his person is really inspiring, and I can also draw perspective to my own work, even though it's a different study :) And I can actually go see his architecture as I'm currently living in Copenhagen :) Very nice video, really enjoyed it, thank you for uploading, I really appreciate it :)

[@simonwax7575]

This is a great lecture and some really beautiful and interesting work.

[@gigisimbajon4625]

hE IS AS INTERESTING AS HIS WORKS... AWESOME AND GENIUS...

[@jonathanmontebon4120]

A great inspirational video. Has successfully displayed the multi disciplinary and collaborative nature of architectural profession. Good material for aspiring Architects.

[@kash1992ify]

Hes brilliant...Genius born once in a thousand years...

[@milicabravacic7110]

Mozart of modern architecture..same unstoppable talent and innocent human being

[@stonedTom]

Oh! No, he is brilliant, no doubt on him. It seems your list of brilliant thinkers is way too short! :O guess there are way more than you thought! Keep looking for them!

[@ArchitectureMug]

I wonder how much of a critisism, or backlash they get on their projects in a social stand point, if any. I mean to me it seems they research a lot to make a smart decition on the political or social message they want to send in a project. Like the "Parlament prism" project, was brilliant and very ballsy!

[@nicolaasleach]

WOW. Bjarke is an amazing architect

[@canweng5546]

inspiring!

[@dougmorris1664]

Ingels and his BIG Project could save the traditional farmlands of central Arizona, USA. In the developing areas like Gilbert, AZ. Were mundane housing developments are just being leveled and wiped out, and all signs of the past and traditional farm land, which are not only a productive source of usable products but a visual and environmental source of cooling the desert air and temperatures. It is a interesting paradox at hand, these elements of traditional farmlands and open spaces and vistas are part of what attract people to this area, and as they come at greater numbers it is the exact reason it will become a unattractive and wasteland. As Bjarke Ingels, so clearly articulates is his interviews and concepts make clear, the making of a sustainable development. One of Ingels mountain housing project could go along way to not only help save this area it would be a great influence on such backward and mundane concepts of housing and would be I believe, a huge hit with the young generation that are settling in the Southwest and ultimately the inhabitants and caretaker of this area. I think it's profoundly important that the concepts of housing is presented to the people by people like Bjarke Ingels, as most people do not and have such a clear vision, but they do have a great appreciation of that vision when they are lead the the top of the mountain and they can see a 360 degree view. These elements are not only material, but they go to the heart, to soul of humanity and inspiration and the quality, the wonder of life. Thank You for the videos and your work.

[@HamzahAhmadq]

He is bloody good....

[@theoryg]

I think architecture as in the corporate office lobby environment can very often be off limits for people to look at the scaled models specifically. In a way they run ahead of common folks thinking.

[@themnax]

i think he's missing a bet by not replacing the automobile with solar powered narrow gauge transit, or considering obsoleting the city, the idea of city, or most of the ideas of city as we think of them today, entirely. but i like his thinking. it goes beyond some of the familiar boxes, but it needs to go further beyond some of the familiar sacred cows.

[@luisangelripper]

alguien puede por favor traducirlo!

[@EduardvanNiekerk]

Authenticity, period.

[@ilDavid9]

I think that even if all projects pick features from the surrounding or history, some of them I think are just disconnected from the landscape.

[@johnz6241]

1:32 i like bjarke's response, social entrepreneuralism is the way to go for architects in the states, I know of an architect that is getting a pool built in the hudson river and funded through kickstarter, idk why the lady is complaining about American transportation ?

[@riccia888]

So he predict what happen now in HK?

[@thekapow]

1:23:01 the most crazy laugh you will ever hear from an architect in you laugh xD

[@devicetestsandvine-hn2gg]

NICE VIDEO

[@dedisetiadi7642]

Wow brilian man

[@tolarms9900]

OMG! THE VIDEO DIDN'T PLAY ON MY COMPUTER, WHAT SHOULD I DO?

[@nikasamkharadze836]

GET FLASH PLAYER

[@nenecerebro1]

Con gusto lo haría si tuviera tiempo... pero mejor te recomiendo (como consejo) que aprendas ingles... es una herramienta que te abrirá muchisimas puertas! y nunca mas dependerás de que algo esté o no traducido :S

[@yueteng2046]

did he mention about the LEGO house?

[@yueteng2046]

and some fashion design for buildings lol

[@michaelschone3406]

coolstuff :peace:

[@nicolaasleach]

42:18 Fucking epic!!!

[@anikan865]

5:45

[@jclabart]

It seems to me a big thinker for human fun and pleasure but faaar away from our need of sustainablility!!!

[@Foster_The_Wild]

He works it in, its not really his job to do that, that's why he has a team. Play with strengths and let other people do the hard bits.

[@Sivels]

It's a common Danish mentality.

[@andresisthename]

I simply can't think of anyone that makes worse cars than the Russian companies, I think most non Russians would agree on that. So while I have no way to know if he's 100% right about that particular Russian car, I don't think his comment is that crazy either.

[@jakeinao5349]

his accent is addicting., =)!

[@Foster_The_Wild]

I love BIG, I think their work is unparalleled. I use them as precedents for all my work at arch school and I've started to say Architecture like Bjark hahaa

[@jakeinao5349]

hahah., same here., my erasmus classmates even asked me why i pronounced "architecture" like bjarke and im asian., LOL!

[@builtart]

A big thinker and a good person to "include" many others ideas...that is a good quality for an Architect...leader....however my only critisizm as a fellow architect /artist....is some of the buildings have an ugly overall massing shape...proportion...the massive shapes can become quite monolithic and unbalanced looking..... if not broken down and separated into smalller masses a bit more... Frank Lloyd Wright had a sensitivity to the larger visual aesthetic....the massive aesthetic...Frank was a master of simplicity...and very close studier of nature....nature does the massive in beautiful ways ...so follow natures ques...for shapes ,forms ,proportions....for example mountains become smaller as they grow higher...so proportionally perfect to the eye...so to create a building that grows larger as it gets higher is exactly the opposite to natures principles of design...still more to learn Bjarke...but you are certainly in a powerful position to do what you choose ...well done . Darren

[@SCervanters]

you buggin.....

[@gaybroshevik4180]

Hesonistic Sustainability, bitch. We're Millennials. Accept it.

[@jonaspedersen5990]

He somehow insinuates that you can't make fun of the prophet Muhammed. How ridiculous. I love the 8 house. Visited it whilst in Denmark last summer. Lovely, almost surreal landscape adjacent to it!

[@jonsonronson7270]

every building he has shown was so bland , out of place . why are architects so afraid to add detail , symmetry , ornamentation and human proportions. It used to be every building was up to a very high architectural visual quality where no building stood out but connected to form a cohesive enviroment and the ones that did stand out were magnificently detailed and designed. something this guy doesnt even think about .

[@georgecosbuc4475]

this guy is a joke reminds me of billy maize selling detergent on south park. Just a salesman not architect

[@metabalcanico]

Why is he so cynical all the time?

[@homedivision2983]

I Liked him till he said, that MOSKWITCH is the wors car build, that is very far from true. I was in many of BIGs projekt inside, including the 8 House- that house is a horrific shit in the End of the world, I AM SORRY