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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jamie Waugh
International Design Awards
844 S. Robertson Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Phone: 310.659.0122
Fax: 310.652.7114
info@idesignawards.com
www.idesignawards.com
Los angeles, CAlifornia, February 22, 2008
world-renowned architECTure mind qingyun ma to participate on ida jury
Qingyun Ma, Dean of the University of Southern California School of Architecture and former principal of the Shanghai-based architecture and land planning firm MADA s.p.a.m., has accepted his appointment to serve as a juror on the prestigious International Design Awards architecture panel.
As principal of MADA s.p.a.m., Ma led the production of some of the most critical urban designs and creative buildings in China. His designs, which include Thumb Island, Shanghai and the Zhejiang University Library in Ningbo, China, have been met with wide critical acclaim throughout Europe and Asia. He served as keynote speaker at the 2005 World Association of Chinese Architects sponsored by the Hong Kong Institute of Architects; the Mies van der Roe Foundation in Barcelona, 2007; and at Bridge the Gap, CCA, Japan. He has also spoken at numerous Urban Age Conference,: the celebrated London School of Economics-sponsored series investigating the future of cities. He also served as a planning expert and presenter to the International Olympic Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and as a member of the conceptual script team for the 2010 Shanghai Exposition.
Ma coordinated Rem Koolhaas’s first Harvard Project on Cities, which yielded the 1993 book The Great Leap Forward. The two collaborated on the Central China TV headquarters in Beijing and the Stock Exchange Building in Shenzhen as well.
At U.S.C. since January 2007, Dean Ma has already launched a variety of programs and initiatives to bolster the school's profile. Two task forces include the Center of Performative Environment (COPE) and the Center of Design Operatives (CODO), both meant to consolidate the school's traditional strength and explore new territories and techniques in design research.
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