Fumihiko Maki
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| Born | September 6, 1928 Tokyo |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Awards | Pritzker Prize |
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| 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 and currently teaching at Keio University SFC.
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[edit] Biography
After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design. 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. He worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in New York and for Sert Jackson and Associates in Cambridge and founded Maki and Associates in 1965. In 1960 he returned to Japan to help establish the Metabolism Group. He often uses metal and glass materials.
In 1993 he received the prestigious 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.
After completing a $330 million expansion of the United Nations building in Manhattan, Maki is currently designing Tower 4 at the former World Trade Center site (scheduled to open in 2013). In addition, Maki is currently designing an extension for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's media lab.
[edit] Works
- 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 (2010 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
[edit] Gallery of works
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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 (2010)
[edit] Awards
- 1988 : Wolf Prize in Arts
- 1993 : Pritzker Architecture Prize
- 1993 : UIA Gold Medal (International Union of Architects)
- 1999 : Praemium Imperiale
- 2011 : AIA Gold Medal
[edit] References
[edit] Further reading
- Maki, Fumihiko, "Investigations in Collective Form", A Special Publication Number 2, The School of Architecture, Washington University : St. Louis : June 1964
[edit] External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Fumihiko Maki |
- Maki and Associates Official Site
- Pritzker Prize - Fumiho Maki
- Interview with Fumihiko Maki(video)
- Images of Tower 4, WTC(photos)
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