Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “When I started university, I didn’t know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “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 similar. They make so many massive residential buildings.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “Although we’re architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That’s what today’s architecture community should be.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.”
Ma Yansong best Architecture Quotes – “When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn’t get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.”