Yes is More. An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution

Yes is More is the easily accessible but unremittingly radical manifesto of Copenhagen-based architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group or BIG.Unlike a typical architectural monograph this book uses the comic book format to express its groundbreaking agenda for contemporary architecture. It is also the first comprehensive documentation of BIGÕs trailblazing practice?where method process instruments and concepts are constantly questioned and redefined. Or as the group itself says:ÒHistorically architecture has been dominated by two opposing extremes: an avant-garde full of crazy ideas originating from philosophy or mysticism; and the well organized corporate consultants that build predictable and boring boxes of high standard. Architecture seems entrenched: naively utopian or petrifyingly pragmatic. We believe there is a third way between these diametric opposites: a pragmatic utopian architecture that creates socially economically and environmentally perfect places as a practical objec