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When Architect Qingyun Ma became dean of architecture at the University of Southern California in January 2007, he came to the job with a uniquely exciting body of built work behind him.

Geoff Manaugh
MADA s.p.a.m.’s Thumb Island project, a new community center in the dynamic Shanghai neighborhood of Qingpu, is part landscape, part building. Situated in the middle of a lake, the building’s gently sloping roofs form parallel sine waves; covered in grass and walking paths, these surfaces are a functioning public park.
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