Author: Ma Yansong

Quotes

When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

When we talk about a city, we need to talk about what the future is. Whats the ideal scenario in the future?

- 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 need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.

We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.

- 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

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

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

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

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders.

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

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

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