When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make

Ma Yansong
22/09/2025
22/09/2025

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

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When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make
Ma Yansong
Ma Yansong

Chinese - Architect Born: 1975

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Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind's urban culture?

Ma Yansong

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.

Ma Yansong

Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He's from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that.

Ma Yansong

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.

Ma Yansong

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

Ma Yansong

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.

Ma Yansong

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

Ma Yansong

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.

Ma Yansong

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