Ma Yansong. Photo: Wikipedia
Every year, TIME magazine famously names its 100 Most Inluential People. On it this time are the architects Ma Yansong and Annabelle Selldorf.
Ma Yansong, the founder of the firm MAD Architects, appears in the Innovators category. His profile for the list was written by the filmmaker George Lucas, with whom he has worked on the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, set for completion in 2026.
Annabelle Selldorf, in turn, figures in the Artists section with a write-up by the acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz, where she is praised for her revamp of the Frick Collection in New York, inaugurated this April, and her renovation of the Sainsbury Wing of London’s National Gallery, due to open in May.
Inclusion in TIME 100 is a major honor. Not just about fame or power, it is an indicator of the degree of influence a person has wielded in the world during the last twelve months, whatever the positive or negative consequences of their decisions.
Arquitectura Viva 248: MAD Architects
AV Proyectos 100: MAD Architects
Annabelle Selldorf. Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson/OTTO, ccourtesy of Time
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Ángeles, by MAD Architects
One River North building in Denver, by MAD Architects
Sports Park in Quzhou, by MAD Architects
FENIX Museum in Rotterdam, by MAD Architects
Shenzhen Bay Culture Park, by MAD Architects
Frick Collection in New York, by Selldorf Architects
Renovation of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, by Selldorf Architects
