BIG Atlas is the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the built work of Bjarke Ingels Group, mapping more than fifty completed projects across typologies, scales, and continents into a single, authoritative survey of the practice's two decades of output.
About This Book
BIG has long occupied a particular position in contemporary architecture — a practice that takes programmatic invention seriously without abandoning the discipline's technical and civic obligations. BIG Atlas collects the evidence: over fifty completed projects, from an energy plant with a ski slope on its roof to a LEGO Museum that literalises its own material, to BIG's recently completed Copenhagen headquarters. What makes this monograph significant is its scope — spanning architecture, interiors, landscape, engineering, urban planning, and product design — and its argument that these fields are not separate but synthesised. With more than 600 photographs, plans, and drawings, the book traces how the practice has pursued sustainable design outcomes without sacrificing spatial ambition or wit.
Key Features
- 504 pages of project photography, architectural plans, and working drawings across more than fifty completed works
- Published by Phaidon, ISBN: 9781837290185
- Notable projects include the CopenHill energy plant with ski slope, the LEGO Museum, and BIG's Copenhagen headquarters
What You'll Discover
- How BIG synthesises architecture, landscape, engineering, and product design into a single integrated design methodology
- The practice's approach to sustainability — not as a constraint but as a generator of unexpected programmatic and formal solutions
- The full breadth of BIG's project typologies, from cultural institutions and infrastructure to urban planning and residential work
- A visual and analytical record of how a contemporary practice transforms conceptual ambition into built reality across diverse contexts and scales
About the Author
This monograph is authored by Bjarke Ingels Group, the pioneering, multidisciplinary Danish firm founded by Bjarke Ingels. Over more than two decades, BIG has produced built work across the globe, recognised for bold formal invention grounded in people-focused, pragmatic thinking.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 504
- Dimensions: 312 × 247 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781837290185
- Publisher: Phaidon
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students seeking a thorough survey of BIG's built output; design professionals interested in integrated, cross-disciplinary practice; and collectors looking for a definitive oversized monograph on one of contemporary architecture's most discussed firms.