【Book Description】
BIG Atlas is the first authoritative volume to focus comprehensively on the built work of BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, offering an in-depth look at how one of today’s most innovative and influential architecture practices uses design to imagine the future of cities and contemporary life.
Led by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, BIG has, for more than two decades, developed a distinctive approach defined by “bold yet pragmatic” thinking. Their work combines clear concepts, unexpected formal expressions, and people-centered spatial strategies to propose solutions that are both visionary and feasible within complex urban and public contexts.
This volume brings together more than fifty major completed architectural and spatial projects from around the world, forming a large-scale and comprehensive survey of the firm’s practice. Featured works include an energy plant topped with a ski slope, a LEGO Museum that appears to be constructed from the iconic bricks themselves, and BIG’s recently completed headquarters in Copenhagen—demonstrating the studio’s diverse responses to different cultures, climates, and urban conditions.
Spanning a wide range of building typologies, scales, and materials, the book presents each project through more than 600 high-quality photographs, plans, and drawings. Collected here for the first time in a single volume, these works clearly trace BIG’s evolution into a highly integrated, multidisciplinary practice that synthesizes architecture, interiors, landscape, engineering, urban planning, and product design.
More than a monograph, BIG Atlas serves as a blueprint for the transformation of contemporary architectural practice. It reveals how BIG employs integrated design to address sustainability while simultaneously enhancing the quality of everyday life. Produced in a large-format, beautifully designed edition, the book combines scholarly depth with exceptional visual presence, making it a valuable reference and collector’s item.
This volume is ideal for architects, designers, students of architecture and related fields, and readers interested in how contemporary architecture is shaping the future of our built environment.
【Details】
Contributors: Kent Martinussen; Joseph Grima; Andri Snær Magnason
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Year: 2026
Size: 30 × 23 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 504 pages