Qingyun Ma's eyes dart left and right as he sits in a Buick van hurtling west on National Highway No. 310.The road swerves through China's dusty northwest plateau, passing honeycombs of cave dwellings and adobe homes on cliffs. Large arch bridges cross Wei River. Terraced fields, carved in hues of yellow, brown and green, climb up to the skies.
"It's so beautiful, amazing," Ma says. "This is better than any architecture. The peasants are the architects….
...I'm thinking of setting up a USC studio here. I want to continue the university program in a place where culture, landscape, modernity and hands-on construction meet."...
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