Fumihiko Maki

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Fumihiko Maki
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Fumihiko Maki at the MIT Media Lab in March 2010
Born (1928-09-06) September 6, 1928 (age 84)
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
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. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west.[1]

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Biography [edit]

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.[2] 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 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.[3]

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.

Most recently, it has been revealed that he will be designing the London campus of the Aga Khan University along with a cultural centre as part of the King's Cross development project. These will be Maki's first European projects and represent the third and fourth Aga Khan projects for Maki, who also designed the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa and Aga Khan Museum in Toronto.[4]

Works [edit]

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

Gallery of works [edit]

  • 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) [3]

Awards [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Pritzker Prize: "Fumihiko Maki", retrieved 2 January 2012
  2. ^ Fumihiko Maki
  3. ^ a b c "Media Lab and SA+P Extension", MIT Facilities website.
  4. ^ Architect Journal: "Japan’s Fumihiko Maki to design Aga Khan university in London"

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