Fumihiko Maki

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Fumihiko Maki

Fumihiko Maki at the MIT Media Lab in March 2010
Born September 6, 1928 (1928-09-06) (age 83)
Tokyo
Nationality Japanese
Alma mater University of Tokyo (Bachelor of Architecture, 1952)
Cranbrook Academy of Art (Master of Architecture, 1953)
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University (Master of Architecture, 1954)
Awards Pritzker Prize
Work
Practice Koubek Architects
Buildings Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Projects Expansion of the United Nations building in Manhattan.

Fumihiko Maki (槇 文彦 Maki Fumihiko?, born September 6, 1928 in Tokyo) is a Japanese architect who teaches at Keio University SFC. He often uses metal and glass materials for his buildings.

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After studying at the University of Tokyo, graduating in 1952, he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, graduating with a Masters degree in 1953, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design, graduating with a Master of Architecture degree in 1954.

In 1956, he took a post as assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also was awarded his first commission: the design of Steinberg Hall (an art center) on the university's Danforth Campus. This building remained his only completed work in the United States until 1993, when he completed the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts building in San Francisco.[1] In 2006, he returned to Washington University in St. Louis to design the new home for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall.

In 1960 he returned to Japan to help establish the Metabolism Group.

He worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts and founded Maki and Associates in 1965.

In 1993 he received the Pritzker Prize at the Prague Castle. In 2006, he was invited to join the judging panel for an international design competition for the new Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.

Maki designed an extension building for the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was completed in 2009.[2]

After completing a $330 million expansion of the United Nations building in Manhattan, Maki is designing Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site which is scheduled to open in 2013.

[edit] Works

Spiral Building in Tokyo, 1985
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006
Works in progress

[edit] Gallery of works

  • Akibadai Culture and Gymnastics Hall, Fujisawa (1984)

  • Tsuda Hall, Tokyo (1988)

  • Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Sendagaya Tokyo (1990)

  • Nakatsu Obata Commemoration Library, Nakatsu Ōita Japan (1993)

  • Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium (1997)

  • Hillside West (1998)

  • TV Asahi Headquarters, Tokyo (2003)

  • Yokohama Island Tower, Yokohama Japan (2003)

  • The National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo (2005)

  • Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, Shimane Japan

  • MIT Media Lab Extension, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2009) [2]

[edit] Awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fumihiko Maki
  2. ^ a b c "Media Lab and SA+P Extension", MIT Facilities website.

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