MAD Architects is a Chinese design practice founded in 2004 by Ma Yansong, who leads it with the partners Dang Qun and Yosuke Hayano. From its base in China it has built museums, theatres, housing, hotels and offices in China and abroad. Since 2013 it has set out its ideas for the city in "Shanshui City" exhibitions in Beijing, Berlin and at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale.
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The Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia (2011), a large open-plan space with six levels of galleries, was influenced by the Gobi Desert and the work of Buckminster Fuller. The Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring Resort (2013) was followed by the Harbin Opera House (2015), clad entirely in white aluminium panels at the heart of a cultural island in the wetlands of the Songhua River. Quzhou Stadium (2022) sets its stands into a landscaped park under a 250-metre floating membrane roof and has been described as a work of "land art". MAD's buildings are studied for curving forms drawn from nature.
