Ma Yansong

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Ma Yansong
Ma Yansong in 2013
Born	1975 Beijing
Nationality	Chinese
Alma mater	Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Yale University
Awards	2010 RIBA International Fellowship

Practice	MAD architects
Buildings	Absolute World, building 5+6 at Missisauga, Cananda
Projects	Beijing 2050
Design	Fish Tank

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ma.

Ma Yansong (Chinese: 马岩松; pinyin: Mǎ Yánsōng; born 1975 in Beijing) is a Chinese architect and founder of MAD architects.^[1]

Early career

His most well-known works are "Floating Island" and "Absolute World". "Floating Island" is a design of rebuilding New York World Trade Center which is now saved in Chinese National Gallery.

His first international success was "Absolute World", two high-rise buildings which are located in Mississauga, the sixth largest city in Canada, and was completed in 2011. This was also the first bid for an overseas landmark building that was won by Chinese architects; the design won Ma a $125,000 prize.^[2]

MAD architects

MAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architectures based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature. All of MAD's projects - from residential complexes or offices to cultural centres - desire to protect a sense of community and orientation toward nature, offering people the freedom to develop their own experience. Founded in 2004 by Ma Yansong, the office first earned worldwide attention in 2006 by winning an international competition to design a residential tower near Toronto, completed at the end of 2012.

MAD has been commissioned by clients of all backgrounds and for a diverse range of designs. MAD’s ongoing projects include two major cultural projects in Harbin: the China Wood Sculpture Museum and Harbin Culture Island, an opera house and cultural center that will retain the original wetlands as an urban park between the old and new city. Additionally, MAD is designing the headquarter of a major fashion brand in Xiamen. MAD’s residential projects strive for a symbiotic relationship between man, shelter and nature. The Huangshan residential villas is design to nestle into its natural landscapes, whilst the Qingdao private residential courtyard draws inspiration from the experience of a traditional Chinese flaneur and the beauty and emotions developed through meandering across the natural landscape. MAD has several projects underway ranging from conceptual design to construction phases around the world. Internationally, MAD is designing a residential development in the heart of Rome, a mix use development in Amsterdam and the aforementioned Absolute Tower in Toronto, now completed.

In 2011 MAD completed their first museum in Ordos, Inner Mongolia. It is a futuristic shell that protects the cultural history of the region and refutes the rational new city outside. Previous completed projects include the Hutong Bubble 32, a small scale intervention inside the delicate urban tissue of old Beijing, and Hongluo clubhouse, a fluid space without internal boundaries that rises from Hongluo Lake.

MAD is led by Ma Yansong, Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano. They have been awarded the Young Architecture Award from the New York Institute of Architects in 2006 and the 2011 RIBA international fellowship.

"In China, his firm MAD designed the hutong bubble, a modern extension to traditional Chinese housing."^[3] Also, his designed was conceived to Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort.

Design philosophy

Ma's conception of designing stems from a desire to protect a sense of community and orientation toward nature, He said buildings are public art works, and should therefore reflect human nature and give people infinite imaginations.

Explaining his design ideas, Ma Yansong states:

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""The freedom and independence (in the siheyuan structure) have had a significant influence on my work. The idea of architecture coexisting with nature fascinates me.

So much of today's architecture is like a consumer product - mass-produced. A mass-produced item has no spirit. It's disposable - something to be used once and then simply thrown away. ... I want to create timeless designs that move with people and inspire people - to make them feel and think."

”

Quotes

RIBA President Ruth Reed, in the jury report for the 2010 RIBA international Fellowship:

“Ma Yansong is a young Chinese architect – just 35 – who has come to architectural maturity at a time when his country is beginning to allow the freedom of expression so vital to the artist and sufficient freedom to the economy to allow his ideas to be realized as buildings. His work expresses the tension between the individual imagination and the needs of society as a whole."

Awards

2013 D21 Young Chinese Architect Award
2013 Emporis for the world's best new skyscraper (Absolute Towers)
2013 2nd Audi Arts and Design Award in the category Designer of the Year
2012 The Best New High-rise building in the America's by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), (Absolute Towers)
2012 International Property Awards (Fake Hills)
2011 UED museum award (Ordos Museum)
2011 RIBA International Fellowship
2011 Fast Company – one of 10 most innovative companies in China
2009 Fast Company – one of 10 creative people in architecture
2008 ICON magazine – one of 20 most influential young architects
2006 Architecture League Young Architects Award
2001 American Institute of Architects Scholarship for Advanced Architecture Research

Exhibitions

2013.10 Palace of China – Architecture China 2013 exhibition, Segovia, Spain
2013.06 Shanshui City Exhibition, Solo Exhibition, Beijing, China
2012.10 Between the Modernity and Tradition, Solo Exhibition, ICO Museum, Madrid, Spain
2011.12 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture, Shenzhen, China
2011.09 Beijing Design week, Beijing, China
2011.09 Chengdu Biennale: Changing Vistas: Creative Duration, Chengdu, China
2011.06 Living, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen Denmark
2011.03 Verso Est: Chinese Architectural Landscape, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2010.10 Rising East: New Chinese Architecture, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2010.04 Feelings Are Facts, Olafur Eliasson+Ma Yansong, UCCA, Beijing, China
2009.05 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2008.08 Super Star, A Mobile China Town, Uneternal City, 11th Venice Architecture Exhibition, Italy
2008.03 China Design Now, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2007.11 MAD IN CHINA, solo exhibition, Danish Architecture Center (DAC), Copenhagen, Denmark
2006.09 Shanghai Art Biennale, Shanghai, China
2006.08 MAD IN CHINA, Solo exhibition, Diocesi Museum, Venice, Italy
2006.07 MAD Under Construction, Solo Exhibition, Tokyo Gallery, Beijing, China
2004.09 1st Architecture Biennial Beijing, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

References

↑ Sci-Arc Lecture: Yansong Ma + Qun Dang, Southern California Institute of Architecture, 2008-03-26
↑ Absolute development still evolving, Globe and Mail, 2006-08-04
↑ When Hutong meets chic bubble, Global Times, 2009-12-15
↑ STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism magazine

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Name	Ma, Yansong
Alternative names
Short description	Chinese Architect
Date of birth	1975
Place of birth	Beijing, China
Date of death
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