‘Yes is more.’

“Yes is more.” Bjarke Ingels made this the title of his 2009 “archicomic,” a graphic-novel manifesto for what he calls pragmatic utopianism. His Copenhagen power plant burns waste cleanly beneath a rooftop public ski slope, designed to puff a smoke ring for every ton of carbon it releases. He has also said yes to Saudi Arabia’s NEOM and to a 2020 meeting with Jair Bolsonaro, telling critics that a list of countries a firm should avoid “seems to be an oversimplification of a complex world.”