书名：BIG. Formgiving. An Architectural Future History / BIG建筑事务所：塑型 一部建筑未来史

作者：TASCHEN

出版：TASCHEN，2020

装帧：SC，736页

语种：英语

尺寸：16.3 x 25 cm

BIG（比亚克·英格尔斯集团）所著的《塑型：一部建筑未来史》，是一次富有远见的尝试，旨在眺望时间的地平线。丹麦语中“设计”一词是“formgivning”，字面意思是为尚未成型之物赋予形态。换句话说，就是为未来赋予形态。如今，随着人类对地球的影响不断扩大，给所有生命形式带来了日益严峻的挑战，运用我们赋予形态的力量，而非任由未来自行成型，这一点比以往任何时候都更为重要。建筑通过为我们的生活打造空间，扮演着特殊的角色，这些空间正是正在形成的未来的片段。威廉·吉布森的话语完美诠释了建筑的这一角色：“未来已来，只是尚未均匀分布。”

文化、气候、景观，以及从各种元素中获取的所有能量——海洋的热容量、洋流的动态、太阳的能量与温暖、风的力量，都融入了这些项目之中。在超过700页的篇幅里，比亚克·英格尔斯展示了他亲自挑选的项目，包括丹麦1.2万平方米的乐高之家、漂浮在海洋上的人工生态系统、将二战时期的碉堡改造成沉思博物馆，以及融入滑雪场的发电厂——这一发电厂彰显了哥本哈根对碳中和的承诺。通过建筑与设计，BIG为一个可持续且同时色彩斑斓的世界赋予了形态。

比亚克·英格尔斯表示：“要感受到我们有权去想象一个与当下不同的未来，我们所要做的，就是回顾十年前、一百年前、一千年前，去意识到那时的世界与如今有着多么巨大的差异。如果我们能以同样清晰的视野展望未来，情况也会是如此。在我们应对日常生活的复杂性时，这六个进化轨迹让我们能够坚定地注视时间的地平线，避免被当下各种随机的干扰所误导。既然我们从过去中得知，未来注定与现在不同，那么与其等待未来自行成型，不如我们主动去赋予它形态。”

Formgiving. An Architectural Future History, the new book by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), is a visionary attempt to look at the horizon of time. The Danish word for “design” is “formgivning,” which literally means to give form to that which has not yet taken shape. In other words, to give form to the future. Using our power to give form, rather than allowing the future to take shape, is more important now than ever, as humankind’s impact on the planet continues to increase and pose ever greater challenges to all life forms. Architecture plays a special role by proposing spaces for our lives that are fragments of the future in the making. William Gibson’s words embody architecture’s role perfectly: “The future is already here―it’s just not evenly distributed.”

With Formgiving, BIG presents the third part of its TASCHEN trilogy, which began with Yes is More, one of the most successful architectural books of its generation, and continued with Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation. The book is presented in a timeline, stretching from the Big Bang into the most distant future. Projects are structured around six strands of evolution―“Making,” “Sensing,” “Sustaining,” “Thinking,” “Healing,” and “Moving”―the multimedia-based, interdisciplinary concepts encompassing the building industry. Culture, climate, and landscape, as well as all the energies derived from the elements―the thermal mass of the ocean, the dynamics of currents, the energy and warmth of the sun, the power of the wind―are incorporated into these projects. Throughout more than 700 pages, Bjarke Ingels presents his personal selection of projects, including the 12,000-square-meter LEGO House in Denmark, the human-made ecosystems floating on oceans, the redesign of a World War II bunker into a contemplative museum, and the ski slope-infused power plant celebrating Copenhagen’s commitment to carbon neutrality. Through architecture and design, BIG gives shape to a sustainable and simultaneously colorful world.

Bjarke Ingels: “To feel that we have license to imagine a future different from today, all we have to do is look back ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years, to realize how radically different things were then than they are today. The same will be true if we can look ahead with the same clarity of vision. As we tackle the complexities of everyday life, these six evolutionary trajectories allow us to place a firm gaze on the horizon of time to prevent us from being derailed by the random distractions of today. Since we know from our past that our future is bound to be different from our present, rather than waiting for it to take shape on its own, we have the power to give it form.”