“Bjarke Ingels is a ‘yes man.’ He rises to the challenge of just about any demand, be it reasonable or otherwise, with an unqualified ‘yes.’ This fuels his ambition to absorb all the political interests surrounding a project and to turn them into backbending forms that disarm the opp...
Ingels’s communication style has also proven to be a boon for his internal practice and company culture. At BIG, he runs a hyper-collaborative, groupthink operation—one he calls “narrative design”—that allows various parties (and partners) to be a part of the process through clearly outli...