Bjarke Ingels

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.

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.

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

Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.

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 don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.

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.

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.