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The problem with BIG ideas
The latest book by would-be eco-innovators Bjarke Ingels Group is full of worthy architectural sentiments but they're undermined by questionable practice, writes SIAN LEWIS
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[(L to R) © Ema Peter / © Laurian Ghinitoiu]
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Formgiving: An Architectural Future History
by BIG
(Taschen, £40)
THIS book is the third in Danish architect Bjarke Ingels’s manifesto, following Yes Is More and Hot to Cold.
If you are unfamiliar with Ingels, it could help to think of him as the Elon Musk of the built environment. At 46, he is unusually young to have achieved a high level of success, with the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) based in New York and his native Copenhagen.
Ingels appears to give slightly more than the usual nod to environmental issues and sustainability and is known for enthusiastically embracing cutting-edge technologies and ideologies. This book shows us Ingels’s approach to their application.
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