"What defines architecture is that it actually produces reality," says Bjarke Ingels
Dezeen promotion: Architects have the power to make the world more like their ideal dream, Bjarke Ingels told Sky-Frame in an exclusive interview.
Speaking to Swiss window brand Sky-Frame from his home ? a 450-tonne car ferry moored in the Port of Copenhagen ? Ingels, who is the founder of BIG, explained the power of architecture.
"The Danish meaning of architecture is the art of building," he said. "I think, unlike the art that is displayed in a museum or in a gallery, is that architecture is more representational. What defines architecture is that it actually produces reality."
According to Ingels this means that architects have the power to shape the world for the better.
"Pragmatic utopianism where you say utopia is that kind of literary concept of a world so perfect that it couldn?t exist anywhere and pragmatism is the idea of looking at the practicalities of reality and dealing with it," he said. "When you combine the two things it sounds like an oxymoron, but actually what it is reminding you that every time you are making an architectural project, intervening somewhere, you have a chance to make this fragment of the world more like your ideal world."
Sky-Frame spoke to Ingels in Copenhagen
One project where Ingels has redesigned a building type for the better is the CopenHill Power plant in Copenhagen harbour.
"Looking out of the window there I can see the waste-to-energy power plant," he said. "It's not jus...
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