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.
Interpretation
Sustainability should not be viewed as a burden or ideological issue; it should be approached as an opportunity for innovative design.
In this quote, Bjarke Ingels emphasizes that sustainability should not be framed as a moral obligation or a contentious political topic. Instead, he argues that it should be seen as an exciting design challenge that encourages creativity and innovation, fostering solutions that integrate sustainability seamlessly into our way of life.
In practice
This quote could be used in a presentation on innovative architectural designs that promote sustainability.
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.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason
The western mantra is that Israel seeks negotiations without preconditions, while the Palestinians refuse. The opposite is more accurate.
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.
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