Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2026-07-14

Books mentioned on How a Great Architect Thinks, with Bjarke Ingels | Better in Person

2 books · With Bjarke Ingels · Listen

Is the oxymoron really “the secret sauce to everything”? That’s the case Ingels makes in this debut episode of our new video show Better in Person, filmed in Stephen Dubner’s living room.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. Freakonomics

    Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner · at 17:26

    Freakonomics by Steven D.

    Discussed
    “Freakonomics has actually been a book that I really enjoyed because it is saturated and because of your co-authors' ability to sort of collect all of these incredible data sets,”
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  2. Yes is More

    Bjarke Ingels; BIG Bjarke Ingels Group · at 22:28

    Discussed
    “Our first book in the form of a graphic novel about architecture is called Yes is More.”
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