Browsing: MAD Architects

In this episode of PA Talks, the Founder of PA – Hamid Hassanzadeh, interviewed the founder and innovator of MAD Architects Ma Yansong through an Instagram live session. Ma Yansong brought fame to the architecture field in China by becoming a worldwide known Chinese architect in the international scene. His interests lie in exploring contemporary architecture with context-aware designs in relation to eastern values of nature, resulting in complex geometries that inspire with awe.

Familiar yet distinct, the City and Art museum in Ordos appears to have either landed in the desert from another world or to always have existed. From atop a dune-like urban plaza, the building is enriched with a convergence of naturalistic interiors, bathed in light. The result is a timeless architecture in a modern city of ruins.