28.03 kl.13:00 | Háskólatorg, saltur HT 102, Háskóli Íslands, Sæmundargötu 2, 101 Reykjavík
Hinn margverðlaunaði danski arkitekt Bjarke Ingels, eigandi og stofnandi Bjarke Ingels Group -
BIG
- þar sem 85 arkitektar, hönnuðir, smiðir og hugsuðir starfa saman á
sviðum arkitektúrs, borgarskipulags, rannsókna og þróunar, heldur
fyrirlestur á Háskólatorgi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarke_Ingels
"Historically the field of architecture has been dominated by 2 opposing
extremes. On one side an avant-garde full of crazy ideas. Originating
from philosophy, mysticism or a fascination of the formal potential of
computer visualizations they are often so detached from reality that
they fail to become something other than eccentric curiosities. On the
other side there are well organized corporate consultants that build
predictable and boring boxes of high standard. Architecture seems to be
entrenched in two equally unfertile fronts: Either naively utopian or
petrifying pragmatic. We believe that there is a third way wedged in
the no mans land between the diametrical opposites. Or in the small but
very fertile overlap between the two. A pragmatic utopian architecture
that takes on the creation of socially, economically and
environmentally perfect places as a practical objective. In our
projects we test the effects of scale and the balance of programmatic
mixtures on the social, economical and ecological outcome. Like a form
of programmatic alchemy we create architecture by mixing conventional
ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parking and shopping.
Each building site is a testbed for its own pragmatic utopian
experiment. At BIG we are devoted to investing in the overlap between
radical and reality. Choosing between them you condemn yourself to
frustrated martyrdom or apathic affirmation. By hitting the fertile
overlap, we architects once again find the freedom to change the
surface of our planet, to better fit the way we want to live. In all
our actions we try to move the focus from the little details to the BIG
picture."