Fumihiko Maki

Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki at the MIT Media Lab in March 2010
Born	(1928-09-06) September 6, 1928 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)
Occupation	Architect
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. He often uses metal and glass materials for his buildings.

Biography

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. 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.

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.

Works

Spiral Building in Tokyo, 1985

Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 2006

• Steinberg Hall at Washington University (1960s in St. Louis)
• Hillside Terrace (1969- in Tokyo)
• St. Mary's International School (1971 In Tokyo.)
• Osaka Prefectural Sports Center (1972, Takaishi, Osaka)
• Spiral (1985 In Tokyo.)
• Makuhari Messe (1989 In Chiba.)
• Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (1990, Kanagawa)
• Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (1991 in Sendagaya, Tokyo)
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (1993 in San Francisco)
• Ensemble Global Gate (2000-2006 in Düsseldorf)
• Office Building Solitaire (2001 in Düsseldorf)
• TV Asahi (2003 In Tokyo.)
• Republic Polytechnic (2006 in Singapore)
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum and Walker Hall at Washington University (2006 in St. Louis)
• Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat (2008 in Ottawa)
• Building Square 3 at Novartis Campus (2009 in Basel, Switzerland)
• Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania (2009 in Philadelphia)
• MIT Media Lab Extension at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Works in progress

• Aga Khan Museum in Toronto
• United Nations new building in New York City
• Tower 4 (150 Greenwich Street) of the new World Trade Center in New York City
• Taipei Main Station of Taoyuan International Airport Access MRT System in Taipei

Gallery of works

• Akibadai Culture and Gymnastics Hall, Fujisawa (1984)
  Akibadai Culture and Gymnastics Hall, Fujisawa (1984)
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  Tsuda Hall, Tokyo (1988)
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  Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Sendagaya Tokyo (1990)
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  Nakatsu Obata Commemoration Library, Nakatsu Ōita Japan (1993)
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  Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium (1997)
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  Hillside West (1998)
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  TV Asahi Headquarters, Tokyo (2003)
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  Yokohama Island Tower, Yokohama Japan (2003)
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  The National Institute for Japanese Language, Tokyo (2005)
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  Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo, Shimane Japan
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  MIT Media Lab Extension, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2009)
• Four World Trade Center, New York City. Under construction as of January 2012. (2013)
  Four World Trade Center, New York City. Under construction as of January 2012. (2013)

Awards

• 1988: Wolf Prize in Arts
• 1993: Pritzker Architecture Prize
• 1993: International Union of Architects Gold Medal
• 1999: Praemium Imperiale
• 2011: AIA Gold Medal

Further reading

• Maki, Fumihiko, "Investigations in Collective Form", A Special Publication Number 2, The School of Architecture, Washington University : St. Louis : June 1964

External links

• Maki and Associates Official Site
• Pritzker Prize - Fumiho Maki
• Interview with Fumihiko Maki(video)
• Images of Tower 4, WTC(photos)