Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Yansong Ma is a Chinese architect, now working for MAD Studio, an architecture firm he founded in China in 2004. He was born in 1975 in Beijing, and graduated from the department of architecture in Beijing architectural engineering institute. Afterwards, he studied in America, gaining a Master''s degree in architecture at Yale University where he also won the Samuel J. Fogelson Prize for design. His most well-known works are "Floating Island" and "Absolute World". "Floating Island" is a design of rebuilding New York World Trade Center which is now saved in Chinese National Gallery. "Absolute World" is a 56-floored high-rise building which is located in Mississauga, the sixth largest city in Canada, and will be completed by 2010. This is also the first bid for an overseas landmark building that was won by Chinese architects; the design won Ma a $125,000 prize.