Conversation
First MAD Dinner in New York
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September 26, 2008
Conversation
First MAD Dinner in New York
3 min read
September 26, 2008
As the launch of MAD’s first book, Crazy Dinner, we will host dinner events in several important cities around the world, inviting international architects, critics, designers and ordinary people to continue the dinner discussions.
The first dinner discussion was held in New York on September 26, 2008. Guests included Barry Bergdoll (chief architect of MOMA), Joseph Grimma (director of Storefront Art and Architecture Center in New York) and Clifford Pearson (China editor of Architectural Record).
The dinner was hosted by Ma Bin, editor of Crazy Dinner. The conversation touched on topics such as the opening ceremony of the Chinese Olympics and the relationship between avant-garde architecture and construction migrant workers. The discussion also raised some very challenging questions, such as whether the economic recession is good for architectural design. Will people still remember who designed the Bird's Nest in five years? Why can't New York build world-class architecture anymore?
We plan to continue such dinner discussions in other cities around the world and record each discussion. We hope that each dinner will further explore the issues involved in the book Crazy Dinner from an international perspective and local cultural characteristics.
Thus MAD is showing the world its characteristics as "the hungriest architect in China".
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