Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, February 9, 2023: Bjarke Ingels, a Danish architect, product designer (#1774)

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels (1974) is a Danish architect, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He attended Gammel Hellerup HS and graduated in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, enrolling to learn cartooning but leaving in love with architecture. He continued studies at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura in Barcelona, and returned to Copenhagen to receive his diploma in 1999. From 1998 to 2001, Ingels worked for Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam on projects such as the Seattle Public Library with Josh Ramus.

In 2001, he returned to Copenhagen and started the design firm PLOT with Belgian OMA colleague Julien de Smedt. PLOT was disbanded at the end of 2005, and in 2006 Ingels created Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) which grew to 540+ employees and offices around the world - one of the hottest, wildest, most successful architecture firms on the planet. He is the Frank Lloyd Wright of his generation.

In 2009, Ingels co-founded the KiBiSi design group, together with Jens Martin Skibsted and Lars Larsen. With interests in urban mobility, architectural illumination and personal electronics, KiBiSi designs bicycles, furniture, household objects and even aircraft, becoming one of Scandinavia's most influential design groups.

Among many honors, Ingels won the 2001 and 2003 Henning Larsen Prizes; the 2002 Nykredit Architecture Prize; the 2010 European Prize for Architecture; and several US AIA awards. He has been a visiting lecturer at countless architecture schools. He creates unique symbols for each project, built or not.

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