Author: Ma Yansong

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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