At 41, Bjarke Ingels could be fairly described as architect-famous, meaning people outside of his profession might be able to finger one of the buildings he's designed, but not the man himself.
In person, he exudes a boyish charisma that one minute suggests a Silicon Valley wunderkind and the next a president of a frat house. [...]
His most distinctive features are his eyes, which are such dark pools you can practically see your own twin reflections in them.
— rollingstone.com
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vomit
Is there room for more vomit?
Also, you can think someone's good at what they do AND puke at a puff piece about them.
he didn't die at 27 so it's not really a rock star, it's all downhill from here
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Bjarke gets the star treatment but SHoP gets the big projects done. How many BIG projects are stuck on the boards? Even the BIG U sounds like a nightmare, a lot of money floating around or in limbo.... hope nobody goes to jail over that one.
I haven't read the article yet, but the photos I've seen floating around on the internet of the new VIA 57 West damn close to completion make me feel like this:
This is going to drive people crazy. I love it.
Davvid #1 fanboy
The wrap on W57 is it's a dorm for 20-somethings until they develop class and taste
His eyes. So beautiful.
I'm not sure if I need to finger him, or his buildings.
b3tadine[sutures],
How do you finger a building?
for the haters - well next time I am within restraining order distance I will get really hammerred and peek over the fence and vomit all over his terrace. maybe I will trespass as well and write in my own vomit - "Architect would love to Finger your buildings!" At my going rate at 37 I have a better chance of getting sued and going bankrupt than getting published, but I don't hate - I finger buildings.
"At 41, Bjarke Ingels could be fairly described as architect-famous, meaning people outside of his profession might be able to finger one of the buildings he's designed, but not the man himself."
davvid, i don't know, you tell me. look, i love bjarke, i just don't love him enough, but i can be persuaded.
beta, we need some gifs
Charlie, Rick don't play that.
rick james bitch.
"I'm big into 'This is the 21st century, yo!' " - BIG
and the ladies go:
Someone asks Colin Rhys, Hyperloop's "Director of Experience Design," about the beads adorning the nails of his pinky fingers, and he explains the look dates back to his days playing in a band. "I have the same thing," Ingels mutters, deadpan, "except it's on my dickhead."
LMAO
i'm rick james bitch!
Icelandic Jack Black
Bjarke Black
My thought at times like this is why aren't there more architect-famous architects?
What keeps our profession from having more public faces?
if you want to be a public figure go run for office or kneel during the national anthem
definite silicon valley type - kind of like a leader of a start-up - the type of person you see in a coffee shop on Valencia St in SF
Silly there is so much emphasis on this dudes appearance. louis kahn looked like a charred homeless dude and his work was a thousand times better - just sayin.
Well Bjarke does have gorgeous eyes that certainly play a major part in the power he has over people. Anyone looking into them becomes spellbound. I believe Donna Sink has met Bjarke in person so she can attest to this. Why wouldn't or shouldn't the Rolling Stones writer have written about his eyes?
i'm rick james bitch.
I have read this the Rolling Stone article. well, nice to know more about him.
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/meet-architect-bjarke-ingels-the-man-building-the-future-w439468
After reading the full interview it seems like Bjarke Ingels cares about two things: how he is perceived and getting the next project. Architecture seems the least of his concern, probably a task for the staff
When you have 250 employees, at 40, yeah, getting the work seems pretty much the only thing that you think about.
LiMX clearly you do not do this for a living, its important that the boss makes it rain. can't design architecture if you do not have any architecture projects...unless of course you imagine paper arhitecture real in an Academic setting - and that is just too cute.
"My thought at times like this is why aren't there more architect-famous architects?"
Good question. I suspect its because architects tend to be very reluctant to self-promote, leverage media exposure, and cultivate a brand image. It seems like a type of professional modesty/ethics left over from a previous era. It was in 1909, at the AIA convention, when advertising was officially "condemned".
designer turned celebrity
Honestly, who wouldn't welcome the fame. I would. I don't blame him for being famous. It's more about how fame convolutes the value of art by elevating bad works by association. Picasso Shits in a jar...1 million $$$...Joe shmo Shits in a jar- 0$ At the end of the day both are jars of shit...one just elevated by association to a character and his past work....
His novelty driven paradigm is tailored for the media, so the media laps it up and creates a star. It doesn't hurt to be charismatic and have smoldering eyes either.
jla-x, I see what you mean, but I think that many things can convolute our perception of true value and quality. Personal relationships, for example, are something that really screws up our perception. We tend to be easier on designers who we know and like personally. Or sometimes we are harder on people who have crossed us in the past. But we never seem to hear anyone condemning the distorting effects of personal relationships/feelings.
Piero Manzoni created shit in can - not picasso - obviously you haven't heard of him, but you have heard of his work. point being that you don't need to know anything about the individuals personal life, fame, whatever and work can still be appreciated or in this case at least known.
Great point, chigurh. And Manzoni was a conceptual artist, so the "Artist's Shit" pieces were consistent with the rest of his work.
If Picasso had shat in a jar, curators and critics would've probably questioned his sanity.
Fame isn't a license to be erratic. The opposite is true. It pressures a creative person to be more consistent because the public's high expectations hang over the creative process.
there is a difference between what picasso produces and what joe schmo produces. in the case of this comparison, it's not literally shit in a jar (as is the case with manzoni). it's fine if you don't like picasso's art, or don't understand it or whatever, but what he did was actually good.
herein lies a lot of the problem with many architecture critics. they either don't understand what they're reviewing, or they just don't have good enough taste to recognize when something is good. so they blame the architect (or artist) for their own incompetence.
Chigurh, yeah I know that. I've studied art history. Just a hypothetical. Since Manzoni isn't a household/mainstream name the point would be moot had I used the actual shit in a jar piece...but if you look at the Manzoni piece you will see that it says "artists shit" on the can. Seems like he was actually making a point similar to what I'm arguing. Had it not said "artists shit," the value would be 0.
In other words, the label turned a can of shit into a piece of art. Therefore, association and marketing were used as a means of value generation.
Duchamps "readymades" sort of also play on that idea...but less so as a critique of the artists persona and more so on the act of placement in a gallery...he was playing with the institution/artist that transforms ordinary into art via designation/placement, I'm critiquing the association with the fame of the maker itself...even if the fame is initially gained through quality works...My disdain for Bjark is a bit of Hyperbole. I actually like some of his work, just overplaying my hand here for arguments sake. Sometimes I like to just play devils advocate for the sake of dialogue/learning/sorting out ideas....I'm not actually all that critical in real life...
And btw, I love Picassos art curt...looking at a print of "the old guitarist" right now hanging in my office...I have about a dozen books on his work...I also love conceptual art... :)
Love those.
I'm afraid to ask questions.
BIGs the shit.
that's shit on canvas.
aggressive card.
would love to see canvas with tons of ...
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