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.
He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.
If truth is not undergirded by love, it makes the possessor of that truth obnoxious and the truth repulsive.
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.
My books are not 'political.' I don't make political demands. They actually describe life. But when we look at human life, politics creeps in everywhere.
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.
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