Author: Ma Yansong

Quotes

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

- Ma Yansong

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.

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

The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

- Ma Yansong

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage people to live.

- Ma Yansong

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

- Ma Yansong

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

- Ma Yansong

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.

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

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

- Ma Yansong

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.

- Ma Yansong

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