疯狂晚餐_MAD的第一本书

MAD Dinner是由mad北京建筑设计事务所和西班牙Actar出版社联合制作。这本书的出版发行与MAD于2007年11月3日在丹麦哥本哈根建筑中心的个展同步。

本书的基本关注点不是建筑的设计结果及其形成过程，而是背景文本。在最初的策划阶段我们就明确地意识到，一份标准的展览图册并不足以捕捉存在于形成Mad设计结果背后的力量。所以MAD Dinner所做的尝试是把这些设计结果放在一个更大的范围内考量。

构成典型建筑专论的冗长的内部逻辑在MAD Dinner的书中，被置入其中的批评和来自外部的声音所抵消。书的大部分内容是对话和访谈。从细致入微的日常生活扩展到涉及文化图景的诸多方面。一个出租车司机对中国经济发展进程的概括，一个医生谈论他理想中的建筑，一个国际策展人谈论名望所赋予的权限，一个模型制作工人对外来人口的辩护，一位政府规划官员强调代价的重要性……

和许许多多其他领域一样，中国建筑师正在建构他们的职业本身。MAD事务所受到不少认可，也具有重要的象征意义，它将在这一进程中扮演领军角色。《疯狂晚餐》是第一步，一次用以点燃新思维的情报收集工作；它也是一份传自高速增长、充斥着都市湍流的中国内部的概述文档，记录着影响建筑师的力量和建筑师的潜在影响力。

MAD Dinner is a book created by Beijing-based architects MAD in partnership with the Spanish publishing house Actar. It is being produced to coincide with MAD's first international exhibition, opening in November 2007 at the Dansk Arkitektur Center in Copenhagen.

The book’s primary concern is not the product or process, but context. While in the planning stages, it became clear that a standard exhibition catalogue couldn't capture the forces shaping MAD's designs.

The relentless internal logic that propels the typical architectural monograph is, in MAD Dinner, counteracted by the incorporation of critical, external voices. A large part of the book is dedicated to conversations and interviews. Starting from the details of daily life, the discussions fan out to cover the huge sections of the cultural landscape. A taxi driver outlines the evolution of China's economy, a doctor describes his ideal architecture, an international curator talks about fame as empowerment, a model maker defends illegal migration, a government official argues for the importance of suffering…

Along with so much else, China's architects are now in the course of constructing their own profession. MAD is popular and symbolically important, and it will play a leading role in this process. MAD Dinner is a preliminary step, an exercise in intelligence-gathering that can fuel new thinking, an account of the forces that influence architecture and that architects could influence, transmitted from inside China’s festival of growth and urban turmoil.