Author: Ma Yansong

Quotes

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

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

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

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