Is he the Boba Fett of architecture? How architect Ma Yansong is reshaping the look of L.A., and not just with George Lucas' spaceship of a museum.
, who emphatically flouted convention and cultivated their own feisty voices. Eventually Hadid would become Ma’s mentor at Yale, and Ma would go on to work for her after interning with another Yale teacher, architect Peter Eisenman.
Ma further distilled this quixotic but ultimately smashingly successful philosophy with his study of Shan-Shui City, a long-evolving Chinese concept combining urban construction and the natural environment — keeping man both out of nature and in nature at the same time. The Lucas Museum, clad in curving fiber-reinforced panels and raised like a bridge high above its site, creates a greenery-edged plaza and a new gateway to Exposition Park. Although many have likened the design to a spaceship, Ma thinks it will look like a shapeless cloud, hovering over the city. Instead of creating a dialogue of sorts with its neighborhood, or with the city’s buildings in general, it connects to the grand scope of the region: hills, mountains, valleys and ocean.
That plan, as well as Lucas’ earlier attempt to build a much more traditional project in San Francisco’s Presidio National Park, was scrapped among local protests and legal battles. Former MAD associate partner Daniel Gillen, who now works at SOM in Chicago, said Lucas and his team were smitten the moment they saw Ma’s Chicago proposal.
Both are masters of injecting emotion into their work, and both tend to channel a poetic past and a visionary future for inspiration, rather than dwell in the mundane present. They both border on recklessness in their lack of fear, a key trait for pulling off the near impossible. And, unlike many in their positions, they’re quiet, understated leaders who make it clear who’s in charge but are good at listening to advice.
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