FROM YES IS MORE TO HOT TO COLD, BIG RECENTLY LAUNCHES FORMGIVING, THE THIRD OF THEIR TRILOGY, WHICH CONSISTS OF 71+ PROJECTS AROUND (AND OUT OF) THE WORLD AS WELL AS THEIR VISIONS TOWARD THE DISTANT FUTURE
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BIG. Formgiving. An Architectural Future History
Bjarke Ingels
TASCHEN, 2020
6.5 x 1.65 x 10 inches
736 pages
softcover
ISBN 978-3-836-57704-5
“The Danish word for ‘design’ is ‘formgiving’ – which literally means, to give form to that which has not yet been given form. In other words – to give form to the future. And more specifically -to give form to the world that we would like to find ourselves living in, in the future.” Said Bjarke Ingels at the time BIG launched their exhibition at the Danish Design Center last year, with 71 BIG projects on display. The same content has now come into a book form which is the latest installment in the TASCHEN trilogy after Yes Is More and Hot To Cold. A visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time from the Big Bang into the most distant future, the book addresses six evolutionary trajectories – Making, Sensing, Sustaining, Thinking, Healing, and Moving. Throughout more than 700 pages, Bjarke Ingels presents his personal selection of projects all over the world. A should-not-miss if you are a BIG fan and a can-not-miss if you already owned the first two in the trilogy.