Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect and the founder of BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, a multidisciplinary design studio operating at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, landscape, and systems thinking. His work—including the figure-eight loop of 8 House in Copenhagen, the hybrid pyramid-courtyard building VIA 57 West in Manhattan, and the skiable waste-to-energy plant CopenHill—is driven by the belief that architecture can be a tool for turning fiction into fact, merging pragmatic solutions with utopian possibilities. Named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine in 2016, Bjarke proposes that sustainable cities can not only be better for the environment, but also more enjoyable to live in.