Bjarke Ingels Honored with 2016 Louis Kahn Memorial Award
Bjarke Ingels is the recipient of the 2016 Louis Kahn Memorial Award, an annual prize established in 1983 to recognize "excellence in architecture" in honor of one of Philadelphia?s most influential architects. Ingels was honored at a ceremony on May 9th, when he also delivered the annual talk that accompanies the award.
1200 Intrepid, Philadelphia Navy Yard. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels is the recipient of the 2016 Louis Kahn Memorial Award, an annual prize established in 1983 to recognize "excellence in architecture" in honor of one of Philadelphia?s most influential architects. Ingels was honored at a ceremony on May 9th, when he also delivered the annual talk that accompanies the award.Speaking on the subject of Louis Kahn, who died the same year Ingels was born, in 1974, he remarked, ?I wouldn't say that my work is linear of Louis' but I think that he rediscovered symbolism and designed super-functional architecture that's been lost and has been re-created by pragmatism." This fits into Ingels' own views on his practice, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), which he described as ?pragmatic utopianism,? asserting a belief that architecture is ?the art and science of turning fiction into fact.?
© Ulrik Jantzen
Remarking on BIG?s first project in Philadelphia, 1200 Intrepid, Ingels stated, ?When we were coming up with the design, there was a clear place taking form already?the Navy Yard master plan was alr...
1200 Intrepid, Philadelphia Navy Yard. Image Courtesy of Bjarke Ingels Group
Bjarke Ingels is the recipient of the 2016 Louis Kahn Memorial Award, an annual prize established in 1983 to recognize "excellence in architecture" in honor of one of Philadelphia?s most influential architects. Ingels was honored at a ceremony on May 9th, when he also delivered the annual talk that accompanies the award.Speaking on the subject of Louis Kahn, who died the same year Ingels was born, in 1974, he remarked, ?I wouldn't say that my work is linear of Louis' but I think that he rediscovered symbolism and designed super-functional architecture that's been lost and has been re-created by pragmatism." This fits into Ingels' own views on his practice, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), which he described as ?pragmatic utopianism,? asserting a belief that architecture is ?the art and science of turning fiction into fact.?
© Ulrik Jantzen
Remarking on BIG?s first project in Philadelphia, 1200 Intrepid, Ingels stated, ?When we were coming up with the design, there was a clear place taking form already?the Navy Yard master plan was alr...
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