Founder of MAD Architects, Ma Yansong is the man behind architectural fantasies like the Harbin Opera House and the Fake Hills apartment complex in China – buildings whose sensual, sculptural and ...

In our second and final installment on Beijing-born architect Ma Yansong, we present his views on building icons in China, five of his key designs in the country and his latest book that launches this ...

Tracing a trajectory from Ma Yansong's early critiques of modernism to the fluid, expressive forms of his recent work, the exhibition highlights Ma's ongoing effort to challenge the rationalist legacy ...

For Ma Yansong, the celebrated Beijing-based, Yale University-educated architect and founder of MAD Architects, the cities of the future are not the cold, nature-devoid machine-like worlds imagined in ...

It might look like an alien spaceship has landed, but according to architect Ma Yansong, the towering Chaoyang Park Plaza is inspired by classical Chinese landscape painting. "Like the natural ...

Ma Yansong & MAD presented their installation, dubbed the Shanshui Experiment Complex at the the Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture. The elaborate model is based on ...

Architects, not Architecture is turning five and we are celebrating it with a series of virtual events around the world. Welcome to our Virtual World Tour! Since we can’t travel as we used to, we are ...

Imagine some otherworldly being extending its arms and sweeping together an urban neighborhood’s low-slung homes and tidy landscaping into a compact, block-size hill. An irregular row of rooflines ...