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.
So little time we live in Time,_x000D_ _x000D_ And we learn all so painfully,_x000D_ _x000D_ That we may spare this hour's term_x000D_ _x000D_ To practice for Eternity.
I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?
I have made a great discovery. I no longer believe in anything. Objects don't exist for me except in so far as a rapport exists between them and myself. When one attains this harmony, one reaches a sort of intellectual non-existence, what I can only describe as a sense of peace, which makes everything possible and right. Life then becomes a perpetual revelation. That is true poetry.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
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