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MAD architects: designboom interview

MAD is a chinese design office dedicated to innovation in architectural practice,
landscape design and urban planning.
designboom met ma yansong in MAD's beijing headquarter office on november 5th, 2009.


ma yansong
portrait © designboom


taichung convention center, china, 2009


'superstar', self-sustaining city, 2008

'the 'chinese dream' needs to be redefined with more
attention to the 'personal dream' of our people.
a dream where there are no political boundaries,
which then becomes the dream for human beings.
that's what interests me a lot. I always try to do something
which is open and free (perhaps involving nature).
there are those architects who are realistic architects
or those utopian architects. we are part of the first, we try
to plan something which is quiet real, something
you can visualize.' ma yangsong says.

read the interview here
massimo db
11.26.09  
3
Wtf is that star thing? Just impossible and silly
Were they on crack or something?
Alex   11.26.09
I think MAD is the most interesting architecture adventure of the last 10 years.
KAREN   11.27.09
It's just more courageous!
Liv   11.27.09
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