Best quotes by Ma Yansong on Nature

Checkout quotes by Ma Yansong on Nature

• ‟ We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities.

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• ‟ Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.

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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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• ‟ The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level.

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

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• ‟ We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements.

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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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• ‟ I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.

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• ‟ Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that become symbols of power and capitalism. We don't talk about how emotions and nature can be connected.

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• ‟ To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky.

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• ‟ A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional.

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• ‟ In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.

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• ‟ People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.

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• ‟ In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a landscape but a part of daily life.

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• ‟ I'm trying to express nature in big cities.

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• ‟ 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.

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