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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
There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky. Ma Yansong
Nature Sky Our Way High Must Rise Environment Combine Maybe Gardens
If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined. Ma Yansong
You Mountains Ancient See Something Look Real Artists Chinese Paintings Imagined
I actually feel like a very traditional architect. Ma Yansong
Architect Feel Like Traditional Very Actually
People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better. Ma Yansong
People Better Think Remake True Buildings Demolish Permanent Always China
Architects think that beauty is a crime. Ma Yansong
Crime Beauty Think Architects
Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture? Ma Yansong
Nature Culture Architecture Our Ourselves Has-Been More Since Make How Leave Been Legacy Discussing Office Behind Human Beijing Want Urban Ask Humankind Need Olympics
Historically, sci-fi movies have played an important role in inspiring young people. Ma Yansong
People Important Young Inspiring Sci-Fi Important Role Historically Role Young People Movies Played
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. Ma Yansong
Architecture Own Our Way Solutions Take Come Up Just Orders Show
Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable. Ma Yansong
People Plaza Topic Uncomfortable Idea Feel Because Makes Forest Square Happened Sensitive Turning Many Things
I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation. Ma Yansong
Logical Try Analysis Say Would Find Solving Architects Rational Like Equation Answer Very Process Processes Many Right Right Answer Start
When you look at classical structures, they're often linked to literature, music, or a poem. They were constructed by master builders, which means it's not something standard that you can copy. Ma Yansong
Music You Master Classical Something Poem Structures Constructed Look Builders Were Linked Often Literature Which Means Standard Copy
People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it. Ma Yansong
Nature People Live Destroy Necessarily
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. Ma Yansong
Architecture Young Definition Clear Between Look Chinese Used
Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that. Ma Yansong
Nature Spiritual Me Architecture High High-Tech Inspired He Like His South South America America Artistic Expensive Where Meaning Really Tech Oscar
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