Bjarke Ingels

In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.

Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.