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

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

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

- 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 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

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

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

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

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

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