Chinese - Architect | 1975 -
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.
Ma Yansong
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I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.
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Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.
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The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is what happens after human beings experience industrial civilisation at the expense of the natural environment.
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Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.
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I don't use tools to create things, but I use them to realize things.
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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.
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When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
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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.
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In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.
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I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and commercial climate, many architects are trying very hard to solve everyday issues, to respond to the authorities.
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We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be.
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