IoA Sliver Lecture Ma Yansong, MAD Architects “MAD Works”
Architect, Beijing, China
March 6th, 2012, 7pm, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
Beijing-born architect Ma Yansong is recognized as an important voice in a new generation of architects. Since the founding of MAD in 2004, his works in architecture and art have been widely published and exhibited. He graduated from the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Ma attended Yale University after receiving the American Institute of Architects Scholarship for Advanced Architecture Research in 2001 and holds a masters degree in Architecture from Yale. He has since taught architecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Ma Yansong was awarded the 2006 Architecture League Young Architects Award. In 2008 he was selected as one of the twenty most influential Young Architects today by ICON magazine and Fast Com- pany named him one of the ten most creative people in architecture in 2009. In 2010 he became the first architect from China to receive a RIBA fellowship.
UPCOMING SLIVER EVENTS 2012
March 15th: Joseph Giovannini, Architect/Critic, New York
March 28th: John McMorrough, Architect/Theorist, Ann Arbor, MI
April 17th: Matias del Campo, Architect, Vienna