马岩松，1975年出生于北京，曾就读于北京建筑工程学院（现北京建筑大学），后毕业于美国耶鲁大学(Yale University)，被视为极具创意的建筑设计先锋，引领全球建筑对话。他曾被称为建筑界最具创造力的十人之一，2010年，英国皇家建筑师协会（RIBA）授予他RIBA国际名誉会员，2014年他被世界经济论坛评选为“2014世界青年领袖”。他任教于北京建筑大学。

2014年12月6日，马岩松荣登《时尚先生》杂志12月刊封面大片“年度先生特辑”。

他曾在伦敦扎哈•哈迪德事务所和纽约埃森曼事务所工作，2004年回国并成立了北京MAD建筑事务所，其多件作品都引起国内外建筑界广泛关注和讨论，如重建纽约世界贸易中心的“浮游之岛”方案、加拿大多伦多“梦露大厦”、美国卢卡斯叙事博物馆、三亚凤凰岛、广西北海“假山”、北京的“胡同泡泡”等，他是首位在国外赢得重大标志性建筑项目的中国建筑师，作品曾被中国国家美术馆馆藏。

Ma Yansong, born in 1975 in Beijing, attended Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture (now Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture), then graduated from Yale University, is considered as a creative architectural design pioneer to lead the world architectural dialogue. He was called as one of the ten most creative in architecture. Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) conferred him RIBA International Honorary Members in 2010. He was selected as “2014 World Young Leaders” by the World Economic Forum in 2014. Now he teaches at Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

Ma Yansong appeared on the cover blockbuster “Man of the Year Edition” of the December issue of Esquire magazine on December 6, 2014.

He worked at the Zaha Hadid Architects and Eisenman Architects. He returned to China and founded Beijing MAD Architects in 2004. Many of his works causes wide attention and discussion in architects at home and abroad, like the Flowing Island Plan to reestablish world trade center in New York, the Absolute World Towers in Toronto, Canada, Lucas Narrative Museum in United States, Sanya Phoenix Island, Fake Hills in Beihai, Guangxi, Beijing Hutong Bubble etc. He is the first Chinese architect to win significant symbolic building project at abroad. His works was collected by National Art Museum of China.