Screen/Print #38: Ma Yansong of MAD Architecture's "Shanshui City"

2015-12-21T18:16:00-05:00

Part humanist wake-up call, part architecture manifesto, Ma Yansong’s Shanshui City emerges at a critical point for Chinese urbanism, as urban development accelerates to a breakneck speed of environmental damage and social concessions. Yansong draws stark lines between the Beijing he grew up in and the Beijing where he founded MAD Architects, pointing to the now-endangered urbanist details that made the city of his childhood livable and beautiful. Shanshui City is Yansong’s conceptual strategy for how architecture in Beijing, and elsewhere in the developing world, must retain what is so easily lost – they key being integration with nature.

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Screen/Print #38: Ma Yansong of MAD Architecture's "Shanshui City"