MAD Studio, or the MAD architects, are an architectural firm with offices and headquarters all around the world. They were founded in 2004 and are responsible for the designs of world famous buildings such as the National Art Museum of China and Absolute World (the building pictured). The firm is headed by Dang Qun, Ma Yansong, and Yosuke Hayano. Their project ventures cover a number of different purposes – commercial and residential, to even educational structures. If you take a look at the Ordos Museum in Ordos, China, you can see that modern and futuristic structures are MAD Studio’s forte; they specialize in simple structures that contain beauty in the features that they lack. This is incredible to me; by stripping a building of all it’s truly nonessential aspects, you get something that looks truly odd and majestic at the same time.