Bjarke Ingels

​Bjarke Ingels is founding partner of the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), which he started in 2005. He previously co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 and worked at the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Ingels has taught at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Rice universities and is an honorary professor at the Royal Academy of Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. A frequent public speaker who has spoken at TED and the World Economic Forum, among others, Ingels’s honors include the 2004 Venice Biennale Golden Lion and Urban Land Institute’s 2009 Award for Excellence. He was named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people and 2011 Architectural Innovator of the Year by The Wall Street Journal.