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Ma Yansong
Ma Yansong
Chinese Architect
Born: 1975
Architecture Culture Nature People Think You
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago. Ma Yansong
Beautiful Will Own Earth Way Thousands Thousands Of Years Mars Horizon Glaciers Never Red Been Discover Years Years Ago Quiet Get Frozen Landscape
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need. Ma Yansong
Happiness Nature Man World Prosperity Men Beauty Eastern Find Match Built Very Close Even Actually Need
The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness. Ma Yansong
Spiritual Humanity Lie Values Big Sense Difficulty Our Those Cities Per Rather Lead Concealed Emptiness Within Buildings Does Big Cities Loss Which Skyscrapers
We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. Ma Yansong
Nature Try Distinct Defying Sees Idea Buildings Which Modernism Turn Landscapes Elements Two
Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves. Ma Yansong
Sometimes Scan More Directly Perfect Industrial Make Want Curves Sketch Then
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. Ma Yansong
People Power Become Memorials More More And More Buildings Isolated Modern Capital
I'm trying to express nature in big cities. Ma Yansong
Nature Big Cities Big Cities Trying Express
When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future? Ma Yansong
Future City About Scenario Ideal Talk Need
I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture. Ma Yansong
Nature Culture People Values Think See Concerned Traditional Traditional Values Very Where Form Chinese Chinese People Symbolic
In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste. Ma Yansong
Wine White White House Bad Some Seemed Bad Taste Had Bottles Like Looked House Buildings Taste Represent China
We need architects to be visionaries. Ma Yansong
Visionaries Architects Need
In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. Ma Yansong
Today Together Architecture Communicate Strong Past Young Community Architects Talented Audience Form In The Past Social Agenda Worked Should Larger
China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country - and, second, rapid urbanization. Ma Yansong
History You Experience First Country Rich Rapid Cultural Very Contrasting Where Place China Things Second Two
A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape. Ma Yansong
Architecture Treat Situation Pay Trees City More Environment Attention Lot Modern Urban Landscape Gardens Bring
To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky. Ma Yansong
Family Nature Together People Space Sky Build Own Live High Rise Allow Towers Limited Still Go Social Land Each Millions Millions Of People
My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. Ma Yansong
First Big Community Architects Small Had Beverly Beverly Hills First Impression Hills Make Houses Built Block Impression Famous Want Wanted Place Rooted Landscape Sculpture Here
We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities. Ma Yansong
Nature Enter Cities More Emotionally New Make New Era Era Modern Connected Humans Need
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape. Ma Yansong
Culture Natural Architecture Building Design Plaza Carry Tried City Emerge About Park Instead Between Boundary New How Traditional Modern Format Landscape
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings. Ma Yansong
You Architecture Will Design City Easy Similar Look Most Massive Make Parts Because Buildings Very Different Anything China Special Many Residential
When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting. Ma Yansong
Architecture World Thought Looking Magazines About Could Through Exciting Over Know Lot Different Interesting Much Flipped Images Started University
Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. Ma Yansong
Me Architecture Part Always Ultimately Artistic Interested
Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape. Ma Yansong
Architecture Space Feeling Think Tried About Shapes Context Impression Artistic Intent Really Landscape Bring Early Career
I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things. Ma Yansong
Tools Them Realize Create Use Things
People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections. Ma Yansong
Love Nature People Other Emotional Environments Go Closer Create Connections Need
I don't like to talk about sustainability, because sometimes I see green buildings that don't appear any different from those in the past. Ma Yansong
Sometimes Past Those See About Like Talk Because Buildings Green Any Different Sustainability In The Past Appear
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. Ma Yansong
Nature Architecture Trying Create Landscape Copying
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