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.
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
Oh, breathe not his name! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid
What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.
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