“One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catc...” — Bjarke Ingels Quote

One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you've already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.

A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.