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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge.
- Buildings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.
- Building
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- Nov 07, 2020
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Copenhagen, there's a long-term commitment to creating a well-functioning pedestrian city where all forms of movement - pedestrian, bicycles, cars, public transportation - are accommodated with equal priority.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is flat - it's ideal for bicycling.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn't spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost never listen to the radio.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
My drawing skills probably froze around when I was 18... Now I'm more interested in the story, how the drawings, the layout can help express the stories and communicate them.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was misogynist, would I hire a woman as my CEO? Probably not. I grew up in Denmark, for crying out loud. Denmark is probably one of the places where equality is actually fully achieved. Our political system is practically a matriarchy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have to come up with the best idea. It is my job to make sure that it is always the best idea that wins.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love computer programmers. They have a very beautiful definition of complexity as 'the capacity to transmit the maximum information with the minimum data'.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
A kid in Minecraft can build a world and inhabit it through play. We have the possibility to build the world that we want to inhabit.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silicon Valley has been this global engine of innovation and economic growth over the last few decades, but a tidal wave of innovation that has been focused very much in the digital realm.
- Architecture
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- Nov 07, 2020