Historically, sci-fi movies have played an important role in inspiring young people. — Ma Yansong Cinema Copy Share Image
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level. — Ma Yansong Human Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. — Ma Yansong Buildings Copy Share Image
I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
In traditional cities like Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou, nature was a very important part of urban planning - not only as a… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
China is a place where you can experience two very contrasting things coexisting. First, the rich, cultural history of the country -… — Ma Yansong China Copy Share Image
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
A door handle is very symbolic to me. It is the first object that one will interact with before entering a new… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
The city of the future development will be shifted from the pursuit of material civilisation to the pursuit of nature. This is… — Ma Yansong City Copy Share Image
In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of… — Ma Yansong Culture Copy Share Image
A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become… — Ma Yansong Human emotions Copy Share Image
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
I grew up in Beijing, and there weren't many modern buildings during my childhood. I was influenced by traditional culture - the… — Ma Yansong Art Copy Share Image
We proposed Tiananmen Square - this very empty political square in the city centre - should turn green. Maybe in the future,… — Ma Yansong Change Copy Share Image
Since the Industrial Revolution, we tend to use technology to show our power: you know, we build high-rises, towers, big buildings that… — Ma Yansong Capitalism Copy Share Image
We need to enter a new era to make nature and humans more emotionally connected in modern cities. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional… — Ma Yansong Connections Copy Share Image
Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if… — Ma Yansong Beauty Copy Share Image
I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the… — Ma Yansong Architecture Copy Share Image
I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably… — Ma Yansong Beautiful Copy Share Image
