Bjarke Ingels, founder and director of BIG.

Derek Blasberg from Vanity Fair wrote about the most important '23 Disrupters' that are revolutionizing art, film, and fashion right now. Bjarke Ingels is presented among these 23 names, changing the way we view architecture. The other names include Jordan and Ryan Coogler (screenwriter and director), Tavi Gevinson (actress, writer and editor), Spike Jonze (writer and director), Lucy Chadwick (gallerist), Nick Wooster (designer and 'free agent'), George Bamford (founder of Bamford watch department) and many more... Ingels is presented as an important architect behind New York’s Big U, a structure off the southern tip of Manhattan designed to protect against rising sea levels and hurricanes. It is also stated that he is also involved with VIA, on West 57th Street, which looks like a breaking wave with its slanted roofs allowing sunlight to flood its courtyard.

Bjarke Ingels's disruption: “I want to find shapes and designs we haven’t discovered before.”

Disrupter: The newest term to invade pop culture’s lexicon. It’s up there with “selfie” or “kale,” a word du jour that rolls off the tongue of tech investors, music execs, and magazine editors when they want to describe a trend in the creative arts. “Disruption in art is necessary,” says filmmaker Sean Baker, who is included in the portfolio. “It allows you to take a step forward.” Herein lies the crux of our portfolio. Not only has this crop of people used forward-thinking instincts to challenge and provoke the way that art, fashion, and architecture are created, but they have done it with personal flair.....Continue Reading

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