“Because of this overall quantity, young architects with new ideas will have a chance.” China is building a lot, and many different cities are all building,” Ma said in an interview with Fast Company. “At least in the past 20 years, China has had more opportunity than in the U.S. To mark the broadening of his work, Ma has just released MAD Rhapsody, his firm’s first monograph, which features more than 20 buildings, parks, and cultural venues the firm has designed. Several other U.S.-based projects, from Denver to Miami, are in the design phase. A mixed-use building that combines green walls and peaked residential roofs opened in Beverly Hills in 2018, and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, the firm’s most significant U.S. Ma Yansong They’re perhaps not totally surprising in China, where rapid urbanization has opened the door to what Chinese President Xi Jinping has called, pejoratively, a trend of “weird building.” Now Ma is bringing that trend to the States.
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