MAD Studio

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MAD architects

Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada
Practice information
Key architects Ma Yansong
Location Beijing, China
Founded 2004
Work
Buildings Absolute World
Awards 2010 RIBA international Fellowship

MAD sometimes referred to as MAD studio or MAD architects is a studio that builds futuristic architecture based on contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature.

Based in Beijing, China and Tokyo, Japan, MAD gained first international attention in 2006 when it was commissioned to design two residential towers in Mississauga, Canada.

History

Residential projects

  • Absolute World, 2006-2011 - Mississauga, Canada
  • Fake Hills, 2008-2013 - Beihei, China
  • Urban Forest, 2009- ChongQing, China

Cultural projects

  • City & Art Museum, 2005-2011 - Ordos, China
  • China Wood Sculpture Museum, 2009-2012 - Harbin, China

Preservationist projects

  • Hutong Bubble 32, 2009 - Beijing, China

Works of Art

  • Fish Tank, 2002
  • Superstar, A mobile China Town, 2008

Exhibitions

  • 2011 Chinese Architectural Landscape, MAXXI, Rome Italy
  • 2011 Living, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen Denmark
  • 2010 Rising East, New Chinese Architecture, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
  • 2010 Feelings Are Facts, Olafur Eliasson+Ma Yansong, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA),Beijing, China
  • 2009 State Fair Guggenheim, Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  • 2008 Super Star, A Mobile China Town, Uneternal City, 11th Venice Biennale of Architecture, Venice, Italy
  • 2008 China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
  • 2007 MAD IN CHINA, solo exhibition, Danish Architecture Center (DAC), Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2006 MAD IN CHINA, Solo exhibition, Diocesi Museum, Venice, Italy
  • 2006 Shanghai Art Biennale, Shanghai, China
  • 2004 1st Architecture Biennial Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

See also

  • Yansong Ma
  • Qun Dang
  • Yosuke Hayano

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