Jury

Ma Yansong, Founding Principle 

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 Young Architects 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 2011. On-going projects include the Sinosteel International Plaza, a 358m high rise tower in Tianjin Binghai New District, Erdos Museum in Inner Mongolia, Guardian Art Center in Beijing, Taichung Convention Center in Taiwan, Chongqing Urban Forest and some large-scale public complex and residential housing in Denmark, Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and Costa Rica. 

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 10th 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. MAD’s concept proposal, Super Star_A mobile China Town is on exhibition in the Uneternal City of the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice.