Art Quote by Ma Yansong

I grew up in the old neighborhood of Beijing where you had a courtyard and trees. Actually, the whole of Beijing was a garden…

— Ma Yansong

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…

— Ma Yansong

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We…

— Ma Yansong

China has some cities, traditional cities, with a long history. They are so beautiful, and they were planned so smartly. I call them gardens…

— Ma Yansong

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between…

— Ma Yansong

In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out…

— Minoru Yamasaki

I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

— Jenova Chen

I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which…

— Clarence John Laughlin

I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places…

— J. G. Ballard

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The…

— Jung Chang

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style…

— Thomas Heatherwick