Biography
Bjarke Ingels has studied architecture at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen andthe Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona, receiving his diploma in 1998. Bjarke Ingels started his own office in 2005,Bjarke Ingels Group, after having co-founded PLOT Architects in 2001 andcollaborating with Rem Koolhaas at OMA. Through a series of award-winning design projects and buildings, Bjarke Ingels has created an international reputation as a member of a new generation of architects that combine shrewdanalysis, playful experimentation, social responsibility and humour. Bypracticing what Bjarke Ingels likes to describe as ’programmatic alchemy’, BIGoften mixes conventional ingredients such as living, leisure, working, parkingand shopping into new forms of symbiotic culture.

Bjarke IngelsGroup (BIG)
Amalgamationof specialists of various specializations: architects, engineers, designers andscientists. The Group field of activity includes architecture, design and city development. Among the projects that are in the process of implementation are those in Europe, USA, Middle East and East Asia. B.I.G. are winners of avariety of architectural contests and price recipients.

Positions
a Visiting Professor at Rice University’s School of Architecture
a Visiting Professor at Harvard University’sGraduate School of Design

Awards
2009 - ULI Award for Excellence
2009 - MIPIM Residential Development Award
2009 - Forum Award - Best Nordic Architecture
2008 - World Architecture Festival - Housing AwardWinner
2008 - Wood Award
2008 - Contract World - Best Education Interior
2007 - Mies Van Der Rohe Award
2005 - Forum Award
2005 - His Royal Highness Prince Henrik of Denmark’sScholarship
2005 - The Royal Academy of ArtsEckersberg’s Medal
2005 - Mies Van Der Rohe Award
2004 - CopenhagenAward for Architecture
2004 - AR+D Award
2004 - Venice Bienale Golden Lion
Projects (selected):
2011 - Danish Maritime Museum, 5.000 m², DK
2010 - EXPO 2010 Danish Pavilion, 3.000 m², CN
          Tallinn TownHall, 28.000 m², EST
2010 - Superkilen Masterplan, 4.3 ha, DK
2010 - 8 House I Mixed-use housing, 62.000 m², DK www.8tallet.dk
2010 - Tamayo Cultural Center, 2.300 m², MX
          Zira Zero Island, 1.000.000 m², Baku, AZ
2008 - The Mountain, Housing & Parking, 33.000 m², DK
2007 - Sjakket Youth Centre, 2.000 m², DK
2006 - Helsingor Psychiatric Hospital, 6.000 m², DK
2005 - VM Houses, 25.000 m², DK www.vmbjerget.dk
2004 - Maritime Youth House, 2.000 m², DK
2003 - Copenhagen Harbor Bath, 2.500 m², DK