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  • MAD's undulating concrete library "doesn't say too much" says Ma Yansong

    In the first instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim, MAD Architects founder Ma Yansong explains how his studio's sinuous concrete library in Haikou, China, encourages visitors to use their imagination. More

    Calum Lindsay | 17 November 2022
  • Dezeen and Holcim launch Concrete Icons video series with Ma Yansong interview

    Dezeen is teaming up with Holcim to launch Concrete Icons, a new video series profiling the most iconic contemporary concrete buildings by the world's leading architects. More

    Calum Lindsay | 15 November 2022
  • Watch a live talk with MAD Architects about its first social housing project in China

    Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects for a series of talks on social housing. In the first talk, MAD founder Ma Yansong discusses the studio's Baiziwan project in Beijing. More

    Sebastian Jordahn | 24 June 2022
  • MAD Rhapsody showcases 23 projects by Ma Yansong's studio

    Dezeen promotion: a new book presents 17 years of visionary projects by Chinese architect Ma Yansong and his studio MAD, from organically shaped skyscrapers to rooftop landscapes. More

    Dezeen staff | 14 December 2021
  • Ma Yansong creates lantern-like artwork in rural Chinese tea field

    MAD architecture studio-founder Ma Yansong's has unveiled his Light artwork in a rural tea field in China. More

    Cajsa Carlson | 11 June 2021 | Leave a comment
  • Chinese cities are still copying architecture from other countries, says Ma Yansong

    MAD co-founder Ma Yansong says that Chinese cities should draw more from the country's traditional architecture, rather than aping the style of western buildings, in the second part of our exclusive video interview. More

    Benedict Hobson | 3 August 2017 | 12 comments
  • Ma Yansong: "Architects need to talk about what the future is"

    In this video interview filmed at the RIBA International Conference, Chinese architect Ma Yansong of MAD spells out why he believes architects should be proposing visionary ideas for the future, rather than cozying up to developers. More

    Benedict Hobson | 1 August 2017 | 11 comments
  • "Architects should be more critical and visionary" says Ma Yansong

    Architects have become too close to the commercial world and should instead be proposing visionary ideas for the future, according to Chinese architect Ma Yansong of MAD. More

    Marcus Fairs | 7 July 2017 | 13 comments
  • Ma Yansong invites architecture students to apply for 2017 MAD Travel Fellowship

    Dezeen promotion: Beijing architecture studio MAD is calling for students to apply for its travel fellowships, allowing them to research architecture in countries all around the world. More

    Eleanor Gibson | 28 April 2017
  • Ma Yansong's Mogu Chair is based on the rounded shapes of mushroom caps

    MAD founder Ma Yansong has created a chair for Italian brand Sawaya & Moroni that's designed to be arranged like clusters of fungi. More

    Emma Tucker | 23 April 2017 | 15 comments
  • David Chipperfield, Diébédo Francis Kéré, Ma Yansong and Elizabeth Diller to speak at RIBA International Week

    Dezeen promotion: architects David Chipperfield, Diébédo Francis Kéré,  Ma Yansong and Elizabeth Diller will join Dr Joan Clos of UN-Habitat for the centrepiece conference of the Royal Institute of British Architects' International Week in July. More

    Benedict Hobson | 18 April 2017 | 2 comments
  • Competition: win a copy of MAD's first monograph signed by founder Ma Yansong

    Dezeen has teamed up with MAD Architects to give away five signed copies of a book overviewing the firm's past, present and future work. More

    Jessica Jones | 22 December 2016 | Leave a comment
  • Ma Yansong designs meat-patterned rugs for dogs

    MAD architects founder Ma Yansong has created a series of carpets shaped like juicy steaks for labradors (+ movie). More

    Emma Tucker | 13 August 2015 | 5 comments
  • MAD wants to "invent a new typology" for high-rise architecture, says Ma Yansong

    Movie: in this exclusive video interview filmed in Venice, Ma Yansong of Chinese architects MAD explains his concept for a "shan-shui city", a high density urban development inspired by traditional Chinese paintings of mountain ranges. More

    Benedict Hobson | 6 August 2014 | 22 comments
  • Ma Yansong unveils mountain-inspired skyscrapers for Beijing

    News: Chinese architect Ma Yansong has revealed plans for a mixed-use complex in Beijing featuring skyscrapers, office blocks and public spaces modelled on mountains, hills and lakes. More

    Amy Frearson | 9 September 2013 | 10 comments
  • Shanshui City exhibition by Ma Yansong

    Ma Yansong of Chinese studio MAD is exhibiting architectural models and sculptures in a Beijing courtyard to illustrate his vision for a future city influenced by nature and shaped by human emotion (+ slideshow). More

    Amy Frearson | 11 June 2013 | 6 comments
  • Competition: five Ma Yansong monographs to be won

    Competition: we're giving readers the chance to win one of five copies of a new book of projects by Ma Yansong, director at Beijing architecture studio MAD, including the recently completed China Wood Sculpture Museum in Harbin. More

    Dan Howarth | 11 April 2013 | Leave a comment

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