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Yes is More : Architecture Book
First Monograph on BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
6 Jan 2011 Yes is More as their first eBookTaschen launches BIG’s Yes is More as their first eBookStraight on the heels of being named the Best Architectural Monograph of 2010 by the DAM Museum, Taschen republishes YES IS MORE as the World’s 1st Architectural Monograph in an eBook edition tailored to the Apple iPad.   The digital edition of Yes is More not only includes the 400 page Archicomic which has now been translated into 6 languages, but updates several projects which have been completed since it hit bookstores in Feb 2009. In addition to the updates of the Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 and the 8 House in Copenhagen, the Ebook takes you behind the scenes of BIG’s three most recent projects which include the Astana National Library, Ski Hotel in Lillehammer and the Tallinn Town Hall. “We have always been very interested in finding ways to transmit ideas and experiences between people in the most blatant way possible. This has led us to explore the potentials and limitations of various media, cross-breeding between monographs and comic books, documentary and architectural photography, lectures and music videos. For us the iPad and the eBook represent a unique possibility for merging multiple media, diverse expressions and forms of communication into a single hybrid format. Yes is More on eBook is our first and early attempt at exploring this virgin territory”, Bjarke Ingels, BIG. To take advantage of the eBook format, over 25 short films and animations as well as 360 degree imagery have been added to create a truly immersive experience that distinguishes the eBook from its printed kin. The $ 9.99 Yes is More eBook is available for download on the Apple iTunes App Store. BIG ARCHITECTS PRESENT THEIR FIRST MONOGRAPH "YES IS MORE - An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution" THROUGH TASCHEN's EVERGREEN PRESS  Afterword by Jeffrey Inaba BIG Architects Yes is More BookYES IS MORE is the first monograph of its kind devoted exclusively to the trailblazing practice of BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group, a Copenhagen based group of architects, designers and thinkers operating within the fields of architecture, urbanism, research and development. Unlike a classic architectural monograph, this book is more of a manifesto of popular culture, in which BIG's methods, means, processes and approach to the concept of architecture are revealed as being as unconventional, unexpected and result-producing as the world in which it exists, continually reaffirming its mission with a resounding YES. Bjarke Ingels attracts highly talented co-workers, but also gifted and ambitious clients from all over the world. He does so because his own talent is above all to swiftly create intelligent synergies out of indomitable "movements", wild energies and unforeseen dynamics and transform them into hitherto unseen, surprising, functional, valuable and beautiful solutions to the specific and complex challenges in each task. The results of BIG's practice has already won awards from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the prize for "The World's Best Housing Project", "Best Building in the Nordic Countries" as well as many other international kudos. BIG repeatedly attracts public attention and triggers political debate with projects such as a three-kilometer long wall of social housing wrapped around a park of soccer fields in Copenhagen, the proposal to consolidate all of Denmark s harbor activities in a star-shaped Superharbor along the bridge between Denmark and Germany and recently by proposing to move Denmark s national symbol, the Little Mermaid, to China for six months as part of the Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010 and getting to do just that!   " YES IS MORE is a popular and easily accessible manifesto for architecture as one of the most relevant aggregates of the 21st century in which we may epitomize and answer many of the global agenda-setting questions. In the book, BIG shows how they conceptualize the polymorphous demands, complex rules and highly specialized knowledge of society, creating tangible solutions through artistic processes; solutions which time and again attract the interest of the population at large as well as the respect of global aficionados. YES IS MORE is a communication created in this very spirit - combing elite and popular elements - allowing the sublime to shine through in the commonplace. Thus the reader is invited into BIG's processes, methods and results using the most approachable and populist means of communication available - the cartoon." - Kent Martinussen, CEO, Danish Architecture Centre Publisher: TASCHEN (Evergreen) (available in November 2009) Yes is More ExhibitionArc en Rêve, Bordeaux, Franceshow opens 17 Jun 2010  image from BIG Yes is More Exhibition |
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