B.I.G. – Bjarke Ingels will come to Prague to open an exhibition and present the work of his studio
The Jaroslav Fragner Gallery is preparing another exhibition presenting young architects. After the presentation of projects by MVRDV, Querkraft, FOA, Neutelings Riedijk, and the Bartlett School of Architecture, this time it will feature the Copenhagen architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group - B.I.G. On the opening day of the exhibition, there will also be a lecture.
After five years of successful practice at the PLOT studio, which has won the Young Architects Award twice, the Golden Lion in Venice, and a second nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award, its founders Bjarke Ingels (1974) and Julien de Smedt (1975) decided to pursue independent work. While Julien De Smedt chose a more intimate studio, ambitious Bjarke Ingels assembled a team of fifty architects, builders, designers, and other experts also dealing with urbanism, research, and development.
Ingels perceives contemporary architecture as egocentric, eccentric, and detached from reality, or as predictable and boring products of specialized teams. He critically defines against such practice and strives to prove with B.I.G. that there is a third way. The core of the studio's architecture is the ability for a fresh perspective through experience, playfulness, and originality in thinking, and of course the ecological subtext of the projects. Through collaboration with experts from various fields, they are able to work on a relatively large number of diverse projects - urban housing, hotels, administrative buildings, parking lots, structures for cultural, sports, and religious purposes. Bjarke Ingels is also interested in the international competition for a new building of the National Library in Prague in Letná, in which he is participating.
Awards:
2006 - nomination for Mies van der Rohe Award 2007: Psychiatric Clinic, Helsingor, DK + WM Housing, Copenhagen, DK
2005 - finalists of Mies van der Rohe Award 2005: Maritime Youth House, Copenhagen, DK
2004 - Golden Lion, Biennale of Architecture in Venice: Stavanger Concert Hall, Stavanger, NO
2004 - second prize, Young Architect of the Year Award
2002 - second prize, Young Architect of the Year Award
More information can be found at www.big.dk
lecture: Bethlehem Chapel, November 14, at 18:30, free entry
opening: Jaroslav Fragner Gallery, November 14 at 20:00
exhibition: 15/11/2006 - 17/12/2006After five years of successful practice at the PLOT studio, which has won the Young Architects Award twice, the Golden Lion in Venice, and a second nomination for the Mies van der Rohe Award, its founders Bjarke Ingels (1974) and Julien de Smedt (1975) decided to pursue independent work. While Julien De Smedt chose a more intimate studio, ambitious Bjarke Ingels assembled a team of fifty architects, builders, designers, and other experts also dealing with urbanism, research, and development.
Ingels perceives contemporary architecture as egocentric, eccentric, and detached from reality, or as predictable and boring products of specialized teams. He critically defines against such practice and strives to prove with B.I.G. that there is a third way. The core of the studio's architecture is the ability for a fresh perspective through experience, playfulness, and originality in thinking, and of course the ecological subtext of the projects. Through collaboration with experts from various fields, they are able to work on a relatively large number of diverse projects - urban housing, hotels, administrative buildings, parking lots, structures for cultural, sports, and religious purposes. Bjarke Ingels is also interested in the international competition for a new building of the National Library in Prague in Letná, in which he is participating.
Awards:
2006 - nomination for Mies van der Rohe Award 2007: Psychiatric Clinic, Helsingor, DK + WM Housing, Copenhagen, DK
2005 - finalists of Mies van der Rohe Award 2005: Maritime Youth House, Copenhagen, DK
2004 - Golden Lion, Biennale of Architecture in Venice: Stavanger Concert Hall, Stavanger, NO
2004 - second prize, Young Architect of the Year Award
2002 - second prize, Young Architect of the Year Award
More information can be found at www.big.dk
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