Overview

For more than two decades, the pioneering, multidisciplinary Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has created a wide range of architecture that stands out for its daring qualities, spectacular shapes, and imaginative solutions. BIG Atlas offers an ambitious and all-encompassing survey of more than 50 completed projects from around the world, spanning a rich variety of typologies, scales, and materials, and illustrated by over 600 photographs, plans, and drawings. From an energy plant topped with a ski slope and a LEGO House that appears to be made out of the famous bricks, to the firm s own recently completed Copenhagen headquarters, this exciting volume traces BIG s synthesis of integrated design to advance more sustainable ways of living within our environments while simultaneously raising the quality of our lives.

Full Product Details

9781837290185

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Founded in 2005 by architect and creative partner Bjarke Ingels, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is one of the world' most forward-thinking architecture firms and design consultancies, practicing within the fields of landscape, engineering, architecture, planning, and product design. Kent Martinussen is a Danish architect MAA and the CEO of the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), Denmark's national center for architecture since 2001. Joseph Grima is an architect, curator, and educator. He is the founder of architecture and research studio Space Caviar and the creative director at Design Academy Eindhoven. Andri Sn r Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and science fiction which has been published in more than forty languages.

Tab Content 6

Countries Available