On March 9, Ma Yansong was invited by the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to give a special lecture on "Dialogue with Nature". In his lecture, Ma Yansong shared with everyone the Harbin Grand Theater, the Monroe Building, the Ordos Museum, the Beijing Central Park Plaza and other iconic projects that have attracted much attention recently, and introduced MAD's design philosophy of "taking nature as the primary consideration in modern architectural design and practice".