The Danish starchitect is actually pretty funny Presented without comment, here are a few choice passages from Rolling Stone?s profile of Danish starchitect in the making, Bjarke Ingels, who happens to be quite the jokester, in addition to being a wunderkind of sorts.
Mark Binelli, the profile?s writer, on meeting the 41-year-old Ingels for the first time:

I met Ingels for the first time the day after he'd been the subject of a largely laudatory 60 Minutes segment, and he felt the piece portrayed him as a "salesman." Later, he elaborated, "I think the biggest backhanded criticism-compliment I get is that I'm 'good at communicating.' Which implies that you're bad at doing. To me, it's a strength that there's clarity. We know what we're doing, and that's why we can also explain it. 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."
Ingels believes that "hedonistic sustainability" can change the world:

"Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be," Ingels writes in Yes Is More. "They are what they are because that's how we made them." Later in the book, he makes the case for what he calls "hedonistic sustainability" ? a sustainabil...