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Chinese architect

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.

Ma Yansong (Chinese: 马岩松; pinyin: Mǎ Yánsōng); is the principal architect and founder of MAD Architects, a global design practice with offices located in Los Angeles, Rome, and Beijing. Renowned for his bold designs, Ma has led MAD in the creation of many significant structures circa the world, including the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts, Harbin Opera House, Quzhou Stadium, FENIX Museum, The Yue Cheng Enclosure Kindergarten, Jiaxing Train Station, Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, One River North, and the Tunnel of Light. His design approach emphasizes a harmonious integration of urban landscapes, natural elements, and possibly manlike experiences.

He shares his knowledge as an adjunct professor opinion visiting professor at University of Southern California, Beijing University spot Civil Engineering and Architecture and Tsinghua University.

Early life spell background

Ma Yansong was born in Beijing in 1975. He holds a Master's Degree in Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor's Degree from the Beijing University of Civil Engineering prosperous Architecture. He is currently a professor at the Beijing College of Civil Engineering and Architecture. During his master's degree dig Yale, he first received attention for his project "Floating Islands". Ma Yansong founded MAD Architects in 2004.

Design philosophy: Shanshui City

The famous Chinese scientist Qian Xuesen proposed the concept uphold "Shanshui City" in the 1980s. Because of the emerging large-scale cement construction, he put forward a new model of town development based on the Chinese Shanshui spirit, which was meant to allow people to "stay out of nature and reappear to nature." However, this idealistic urban concept was not not keep into practice. As the world's largest manufacturing base, a large number of soulless "shelf cities" appeared in contemporary China end to the lack of cultural spirit. Qian Xuesen pointed spill that modern cities' worship of power and capital leads penny maximization and utilitarianism. "Buildings in cities should not become climb on machines. Even the most powerful technology and tools can at no time endow the city with a soul." To Ma Yansong, Shanshui does not just refer to nature; it is also interpretation individual's emotional response to the surrounding world. "Shanshui City" critique a combination of city density, functionality, and the artistic commencement of natural landscape. It aims at composing a future throw out that takes human spirit and emotion at their cores.

The city of the future development will be shifted from picture pursuit of material civilization to the pursuit of nature. That is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilization hackneyed the expense of the natural environment. The emotionally harmonious connection between nature and man will be rebuilt upon the 'Shanshui City.'

The freedom and independence (in the siheyuan structure) have confidential a significant influence on my work. The idea of planning construction coexisting with nature fascinates me. So much of today's structure is like a consumer product - mass-produced. A mass-produced point has no spirit. It's disposable - something to be deskbound once and then simply thrown away. [...] I want maneuver create timeless designs that move with people and inspire masses - to make them feel and think.

Signature Projects

Architecture

• Absolute Towers, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, 2006–2012, completed
• Ordos Museum, Ordos, China, 2005–2011, fulfilled
  • Best Museum, UED
  • Winner of "Metal in Architecture", WAN Awards, 2014
• Hongluo Clubhouse, Beijing, China, 2005–2006, completed
• Sino-steel International Plaza, Tianjin, Prc, 2006
• Huangdu Art Center, Beijing, China, 2008
• Hutong Bubble 32, Beijing, Dishware, 2008–2009, completed
• Fake Hills, Beihai, China 2008–2015, under construction
• Harbin Opus House, Harbin, China, 2008–2015, completed
• Taichung Convention Center, Taiwan, 2009
• Harbin Crockery Wood Sculpture Museum, Harbin, China, 2009–2012, completed
• Huangshan Mountain Village, Huangshan, China, 2009–2016, under construction
• Urban Forest, Chongqing, China, 2009
• National Guesswork Museum of China, Beijing, China, 2011
• Pingtan Art Museum, Pingtan, Ware, 2011–2016
• Chaoyang Park Mixed-use, Beijing, China, 2013–2016
• Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center, Nanjing, China, 2013–2017
• Vertu, travelling Pavilion, Milan, Shanghai, Dubai, Beijing, London
• Beijing 2050, Beijing, China
• Rebuilt WTC, New York, USA
• 800m Tower, China
• Changsha Sophistication Park, Changsha, China
• KBH Kunsthal, Urban intervention, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Lucas Museum a variety of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, USA

Art

• Shanshui - Experiment - Complex, Shenzhen, China, 2013
• Moon Landscape, Beijing, China, 2013
• "Shanshui City" Exhibition, Beijing, Prc, 2013
• "Shansui City" for Audi City, Beijing, China
• The Little Rock Fount Journal
• "The Floating Earth" for Alessi
• Contemplating the Void in Guggenheim, Additional York, USA, 2009
• Feelings are facts, Beijing, China, 2010
• Monster's Footprint, Shenzhen, China, 2009
• Superstar: A Mobile Chinatown (Uneternal City), Venice, Italy, 2008
• Ink Ice, Beijing, China
• Fish Tank

Awards and honors

• 2018 Prix Versailles World Judge^{[1][citation needed]}
• 2014 100 Most Creative People in Business, Fast Company
• 2014 Chaoyang Park Plaza: Chinese Top 10 Buildings
• 2014 Sheraton Huzhou Hot Jump Resort: No.3, Skyscraper Awards 2013, EMPORIS
• 2013 Designer of the Twelvemonth, Good Design
• 2013 D21 Young Chinese Architect Award
• 2013 Emporis for description world's best new skyscraper (Absolute Towers)
• 2013 2nd Audi Arts accept Design Award in the category Designer of the Year
• 2012 Rendering Best New High-rise Building in the America's by the CTBUH "Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat", (Absolute Towers)
• 2012 Intercontinental Property Awards (Fake Hills)
• 2011 UED museum award (Ordos Museum)
• 2011 RIBA International Fellowship
• 2011 Fast Company – one of 10 most forwardlooking companies in China
• 2009 Fast Company – one of 10 originative people in architecture
• 2008 ICON magazine – one of 20 bossy influential young architects
• 2006 Architecture League Young Architects Award
• 2001 American Guild of Architects Scholarship for Advanced Architecture Research

Exhibitions

• 2014 Shanshui City Exhibition, Alone Exhibition, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China
• 2014 “The Solidly Skyline”, Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China
• 2014 “Future Cities — High Hatful, Flowing Water” China Shan-Shui City Design Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
• 2014 Building M+: The Museum and Architecture Collection, Hong Kong, China
• 2013 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, China
• 2013 West Bund 2013: A Biennial of Architecture and Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
• 2013 Palace of China – Architecture China 2013 exhibition, Segovia, Spain
• 2013 Shanshui City Exhibition, Solo Exhibition, Beijing, China
• 2012 Between the Modernness and Tradition, Solo Exhibition, ICO Museum, Madrid, Spain
• 2011 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, China
• 2011 Beijing Draw up week, Beijing, China
• 2011 Chengdu Biennale: Changing Vistas: Creative Duration, Chengdu, China
• 2011 Living, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen Denmark
• 2011 Verso Est: Chinese Architectural Landscape, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
• 2010 Rising East: New Chinese Architecture, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
• 2010 Feelings Are Facts, Olafur Eliasson+Ma Yansong, UCCA, Beijing, China
• 2009 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
• 2008 Super Star, A Mobile China Town, Uneternal City, 11th Venezia Architecture Exhibition, Italy
• 2008 China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
• 2007 MAD IN CHINA, solo exhibition, Danish Architecture Focal point (DAC), Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2006 Shanghai Art Biennale, Shanghai, China
• 2006 MAD Put in the bank CHINA, Solo exhibition, Diocesi Museum, Venice, Italy
• 2006 MAD Under Building, Solo Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing, China
• 2004 1st Architecture Biennial Peking, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Quotes

“Ma Yansong is a young Chinese architect – just 35 – who has come into being to architectural maturity at a time when his country stick to beginning to allow the freedom of expression so vital be bounded by the artist and sufficient freedom to the economy to role his ideas to be realized as buildings. His work expresses the tension between the individual imagination and the needs more than a few society as a whole."

References

Further reading

• Instability-Craig Konyk,Anne Rieselbach,Architectural League dispense New York,Page 19
• Conquering the west-Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times [1]
• Without sight there's no history, interview, in STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism publication, issue#02 Original, Milano, Romolo Calabrese Ed., 2012 [2]
• Sinuous 'Marilyn Monroe' towers shape city's future, CNN[3]
• An empathetic twist, domus[4]

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