Bjarke Ingels

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319 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Freakonomics Radio · How a Great Architect Thinks, with Bjarke Ingels | Better in Person · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

And then I gave speeches in the studio about why this was important, and I got everybody to agree that we would be willing to overinvest up to 25% of our earnings to win these kinds of opportunities when they presented themselves.

Because there's also an architecture, there is this catch-22.

that no one will ever entrust you with an airport until you've already done an airport.

The same is true for all of these.

So, but simply by making that confession to myself and to everybody around me, within less than two years, we'd already won the Philharmonic in Prague and the airport in Zurich.

So it felt, I mean, and I don't believe in the secret or in the power of manifestation as some kind of a... You might need to start.

Esoteric, exactly.

But I think...

where it is true that by being brutally honest to yourself and the world, everybody can understand a little bit clearer what it is.

So in that sense, there is a certain manifestation in saying things honestly and out loud.

I mean, but again, I don't know that that is the drive.

I think it is really the... But what was missing?

My mom's a dentist, right?

And I love this quote.

She said, like, you can't really say it as a dentist, but dentists love drilling in teeth.

So if you have a craft, let's call it, and I think my mom was a very good dentist.

I mean, there's an artistry to it, to be fair.

Absolutely.

There's a lot of aesthetics.

You don't want like a...

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