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===** Ma Yansong**, originally from Beijing, received his Master of Architecture from the Yale University School of Architecture in 2002. Prior to founding MAD in 2004, Mr. Ma worked as a project designer with Zaha Hadid Architects in London and Eisenman Architects in New York. He also taught architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Ma was the winner of 2006 Architecture League of New York Young Architect Award. He also received the American Institute of Architects Scholarship for Advanced Architecture Research in 2001 as well as the 2002 Samuel J. Fogelson Memorial Award of Design Excellence. In 2008, his built works, Hongluo Clubhouse was nominated as one of the 100 designs by the London Design Museum and he was also nominated as one of the 20 most influential young architects today by ICON. Ma has been awarded for "style awards for architecture and design" by South China Morning Post in Hongkong in 2008. His works have won numerous international design competitions, including: the 2006 Absolute Tower Competition in Toronto which is under construction and scheduled to complete in 2009. On-going projects include the Sinosteel International Plaza, a 350m high rise tower in Tianjin Binghai New District, Erdos Museum in Inner Mongolian, China and Tokyo Island, the WORLD in Dubai. Two of his works, //WTC Rebuilt - Floating Island//, and //Fish Tank// were exhibited at the Beijing Architectural Biennale and featured at the National Art Museum of China in 2004. His art installation 'Ink Ice' was featured in the Chinese Calligraphy Art exhibition in 2005. In 2006, MAD was shown at the 'MAD in China' exhibition in Venice during the Architecture Biennial, and the 'MAD Under Construction' exhibition at the Tokyo Gallery in Beijing. In 2007, "MAD in China," a floating city of MAD's work, was shown at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark.===

These are some of the Ma Yansong´s projects




===MAD is a Beijing-based architectural design studio dedicated to creating innovative projects. It combines a sophisticated design philosophy with advanced technology in exploring contemporary architecture, social, and cultural issue in today's China. We examine and develop our unique concept of futurism through current theoretical practices in architectural design, landscape design, and urban planning.=== ===MAD's ongoing projects include: the Absolute Tower in Toronto, Canada, an international competition won by MAD in 2006; Sinosteel International Plaza, a 358M high-rise building in Tianjin, China; the Mongolian Museum in Inner Mongolia, China and some large-scale public complex and residential housing in Denmark, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Costa Rica.=== ===MAD's work has been published worldwide. In 2006, MAD was awarded the Architectural League Young Architects Forum Award. The office has also presented its designs in a series of exhibitions, including the "MAD in China" exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennial, and the "MAD Under Construction" exhibition at the Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Gallery in Beijing. In 2007, "MAD in China," a floating city of MAD's work, was shown at the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen, Denmark. MAD's conceptual proposal, "Super Star_A mobile China Town" is on exhibition in the section of the 11 Architecture Biennale in Venice.=== [|MAD - Ma Yansong´s Firm]