{"id":19350,"date":"2015-02-06T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/big-ideas\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:54:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:54:05","slug":"big-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/details\/big-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG Ideas: 4 Bjarke Videos for Your Viewing Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGeologists talk about the age where we are living as Anthropocene… this idea that we are living in a time where human presence is the strongest force of change.\u201d So says Bjarke Ingels, enfant prodige<\/i> of contemporary architecture \u2014 borrowing the words of a scientific community that has yet to reach a consensus on when this current era actually began. In the words of a more authoritative source, 1995 Nobel laureate in chemistry Paul Crutzen (who is credited with popularizing the term) puts it best<\/a> : \u201cFor millennia, humans have behaved as rebels against a superpower we call \u2018Nature.\u2019 In the 20th century, however, new technologies, fossil fuels, and a fast-growing population resulted in a \u2018Great Acceleration\u2019 of our own powers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, a recent account<\/a> posits that the Anthropocene began with the first nuclear test, though Ingels begs to differ, siding with theorists who speculate that this era started at some 8,000 years ago<\/a>, “when we domesticated animals, and plants \u2014 when we became sedentary. We’re not roaming around; we’re actually staying put… and we started building buildings.” Thus, architects, according with Ingels, should recognize their untold influence on the shift to a settled, sheltered livelihood and look to break out from \u201cbeing isolated in their own bubble\u201d to draw up a different idea of architecture.<\/p>\n