Author: Ma Yansong

Quotes

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

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

People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.

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

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.

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

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.

- 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

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

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

- Ma Yansong

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