“Designing sustainably and designing resiliently is not just more homework for architects and engineers,” said Bjarke Ingels at the closing plenary of Greenbuild 2016 Friday afternoon. “If embraced at the core of design efforts, it can enhance and expand our design vocabularies.” The founder of BIG explored this idea throughout his keynote address, using several of his firm’s project as case studies.
Drawing on ideas from Bernard Rudofsky’s 1964 book Architecture without Architects, which focuses on vernacular architecture, Ingels noted that Modernism arrived with the advent of building engineering. “Suddenly, the architecture didn't do anything,” said Ingels: electric lights supplanted daylighting, and mechanical ventilation replaced the need for windows. Essentially, he asserted, buildings became “boring [boxes], tube-fed by a gas guzzling machine room.”
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