Big Atlas - Hardcover

by Kent Martinussen (Contribution by), Joseph Grima (Contribution by), Andri Snær Magnason (Contribution by)

The first comprehensive monograph focusing on the built work of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, one of the most innovative and creative architecture practices working today For over two decades, the pioneering, multidisciplinary Danish firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group has created a wide range of projects that give form to the future, standing out for their bold-yet-practical forms, elements of surprise, and people-focused solutions. BIG Atlas offers an ambitious and all-encompassing survey of more than fifty completed projects from around the world, from an energy plant topped with a ski slope and a LEGO Museum that seems to be made out of the famous bricks to the firm's own recently completed Copenhagen headquarters. Spanning a rich variety of typologies, scales, and materials, the featured projects are brought to life through more than 600 photographs, plans, and drawings. Presented together for the first time, they trace BIG's transformation into fully integrated design, synthesizing the fields of architecture, interiors, landscape, engineering, planning, and product design to advance more sustainable ways of living within our environments while simultaneously raising the quality of our lives. Beautifully designed, oversized, and spanning more than 500 pages, this definitive monograph captures the groundbreaking work of a visionary firm.

Author Biography

Founded in 2005 by architect and creative director Bjarke Ingels, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group is one of the world's most forward-thinking architecture firms, practicing within the fields of architecture, interior design, landscape, engineering, planning, and product design. Kent Martinussen is a Danish architect MAA and the CEO of the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), Denmark's national center for architecture since 2001. Joseph Grima is an architect, curator, and educator. He is the founder of architecture and research studio Space Caviar and the creative director at Design Academy Eindhoven. Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer and documentary film director. He has written poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and science fiction which has been published in more than forty languages.