In the context of unprecedented economic growth and urbanization in China today, architects are faced with issues such as materials, scale and technology. Yosuke Hayano shared the stories behind 4 actual MAD projects. The works trace the evolution of MAD's design concepts, proposing new concepts for urban space, dissolving the boundaries between inside and outside buildings, and connecting nature and architecture. In these projects located in Canada and China, MAD focuses on researching and exploring the various possibilities of the built environment.

May 30-June 1
2013 Melbourne International Architecture Forum
May 31, 11:20 a.m. (LIGT)

The 2013 Melbourne International Architecture Forum is hosted by the Australian Institute of Architecture. The forum emphasizes challenging existing concepts of "materiality" and aims to reveal new insights and application areas of contemporary material experiments.