Best quotes by Ma Yansong on Architecture

Checkout quotes by Ma Yansong on Architecture

• ‟ I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.

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• ‟ Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

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• ‟ The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.

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• ‟ I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature.

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• ‟ Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

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• ‟ When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

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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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• ‟ In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be.

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• ‟ A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.

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• ‟ Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings.

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• ‟ Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

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