The Louisiana Channel has unveiled its latest video on Bjarke Ingels' anthropocentric discussion and human being's massive impacts in the current geological era. Titled The Beauty of Human, in the 7-min video, Ingels says ''the one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is planet earth.'' 

Celebrated Danish architect Bjarke Ingels discusses an ultra local approach to architecture in a global world. The beauty of the human project has always been its adaptability, the result of which is a highly differentiated catalogue of possible ways of living.

Video by Louisiana Channel

''Each city becomes a very specific experiment in how to inhabit this particular part of the planet for this particular group of people,'' Ingels says, proposing that we use this ''catalogue of global best practice'' as inspiration for building better, more sustainable architecture and cities. While modernist architecture tried to create one style of building to fit all humans, today’s architecture can help us learn from each other and adapt solutions from one environment to another – such as the Copenhagen bike paths that were exported to Australia.

Ingels also discusses the Anthropocene, the current geological era in which humans are the main actors on the environment, causing massive ecological and social change. ''Once you’ve accepted that there is no way we can be here without having a very significant influence on our planet we just have to take it as a positive,'' says Bjarke Ingels and proposes to “design our world so that we have positive social and environmental side effects.''

Bjarke Ingels was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner in New York in October 2016.

Bjarke Ingels is a potential candidate for the 2017 Pritzker Architecture Prize in our recently released Pritzker Prize list. Read World Architecture Community's short memorable index and cast your vote in our poll.

Camera: Rasmus Quistgaard
Edited by: Klaus Elmer
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2016

Top image: Bjarke Ingels, image via Video

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