Session 14: His bjark is BIGger than his bjite – A chat with Bjarke Ingels at the opening of BIG's "Hot to Cold" exhibition

2015-01-29T15:25:00-05:00

This episode is a doozy. Paul and Amelia left the temperate sunshine of Los Angeles for Washington, DC's frigid monumentality, to interview Bjarke Ingels on the eve of his "Hot to Cold" exhibition at the National Building Museum. The 40-year old architect shared some quick-won wisdom about scaling a business, the Danish condition, and the indispensability of humor and play in architecture.

Donna and Ken joined Paul and Amelia to speak with Lian Chang about her recently published visualizations of the Archinect Salary Poll for the ACSA, in charming emoji-based data sets. The Sessions co-hosts also discuss Aaron Betsky's new appointment as the head of the deeply troubled Taliesin West, and what Thom Mayne's demolition of Ray Bradbury's house means for architecture preservation and sentimentality.

And for another climatological analogy, Paul and Brian Newman, Archinect Sessions's legal correspondent, poke at the tip of the iceberg concerning issues of copyright in architecture.

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Playing with climate at BIG's "Hot to Cold", now open at the National Building Museum

2015-01-26T14:12:00-05:00

From inside the National Building Museum’s cavernous atrium, gaze upwards and you’ll see a series of white icons, suspended from the ceiling. Printed on square boards, the symbols loop around the museum’s 800-foot arcade, their background shifting from red to green to blue. This iconic distillation is the core organization strategy for Bjarke Ingels Group’s “Hot to Cold” exhibition, which opened in DC last Friday, categorizing the wunderkind and novel-minded firm’s global projects into climatological groups of hot, temperate, and cold.

Despite the name, the exhibition isn’t about the architectural imperatives of climate change. Rather, “Hot to Cold” is a showcase of BIG’s diversity of work (built and not) around the world, in program and local biome. Opening to the public in the U.S. capital, the exhibition comes at a strategic time in BIG’s project trajectory, having been recently assigned to the massive Smithsonian renovation project, and hot on the heels of their BIG Maze at the s...

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Session 14: His bjark is BIGger than his bjite – A chat with Bjarke Ingels at the opening of BIG's "Hot to Cold" exhibition

Playing with climate at BIG's "Hot to Cold", now open at the National Building Museum