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" People can live in nature, and they won't necessarily destroy it. "
Ma Yansong
People
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" We need architects to be visionaries. "
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" We need to be brave and tell the politicians what a better future could be. "
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" Sometimes I sketch and then scan my sketch directly to make the curves more freehand. I don't want to make perfect industrial curves. "
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" We try to turn buildings into landscapes - defying the idea of modernism which sees nature and buildings as two distinct elements. "
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" Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. "
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" I treat my projects as art. "
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" I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation. "
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" The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. "
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" To allow millions of people to live together on limited land, we have to go to the sky; we have to build a high rise. But we can still build nature and social space into the towers. Each family can have their own courtyard in the sky. "
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" In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves. "
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" The way a human can coexist with nature has to be at the spiritual level. "
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" The world itself is already a great textbook. "
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" I have never been to Mars. What will we discover when we get there? A red landscape, quiet horizon, frozen glaciers? Probably all is as beautiful, in its own way, as the Earth was thousands of years ago. "
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" When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture. "
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" It's very strange: if you're a philosopher or musician or an artist, people automatically believe you can see the future. Even if they don't like you, they accept your vision as an individual. "
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" There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky. "
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" I actually feel like a very traditional architect. "
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" Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. "
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" Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. "
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" Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That's really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape. "
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" My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. "
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" I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and commercial climate, many architects are trying very hard to solve everyday issues, to respond to the authorities. "
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" The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness. "
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" People think that buildings are permanent, but in China, this isn't true; we can always demolish and remake it better. "
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" A lot of ancient poetry sees in nature a reflection of human emotions, and in a post-industrialized era, once people have become more aware of the necessity of a more harmonious relation between man and nature, we need to build cities which can connect with human spiritual needs instead of being merely functional. "
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" I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. "
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" If you look at ancient Chinese paintings, you see mountains, but they are not real mountains; it is something the artists imagined. "
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