Early Life and Background
Ingels was born in Copenhagen in 1974 to an engineer father and a dentist mother. Hoping to become a cartoonist, he began to study architecture in 1993 at the Royal Academy as he thought it would help him to improve his drawing skills. Only after he had been studying for a couple of years did he really take an interest in architecture. He continued his studies at the Technica Superior de Arquitectura in Barcelona, receiving his diploma in 1999. As a third year student he set up his first practice and won his first competition.
Alongside his architectural practice, Ingels has been active as a Visiting Professor at the Rice University School of Architecture, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and mostly recently, the Yale School of Architecture.
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