Ma Yan Song. Between modernity (global) and tradition (local) | From (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition.

This book was conceived as a monograph dedicated to the architect Ma Yansong (Beijing, 1975), founder of MAD (MA, his name + D, design) Architects in 2004, in Beijing. Since its inception, the architect's strategy has been the sanitation of the urban fabric, with small-scale interventions, where the symbiosis with existing constructions avoids extreme chaebolization and its demolition to make way for new implementations. If a house is a machine to live inside – Ma Yansong pointed out – as we distance ourselves from the machine age, we are left with the question of what message architecture should convey and how the need for habitat should be resolved taking into account It takes into account the supposed social coverage to which the ideal city would respond. Works like the Fake Hills, Beijing 2050, Harbin Cultural Island, Taiping Vista Apartments or Ordos Museum, among the more than thirty projects presented, are examples of architecture that links the concept of landscape with painting and poetry, as it has been transmitted in China from generation to generation since ancient times thanks to tradition and technologies. tip that facilitate futuristic discourse.

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