Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki | |
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Pritzker Prize AIA Gold Medal | |
Practice | Maki and Associates |
Buildings | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 4 World Trade Center |
Projects | Expansion of the headquarters of the United Nations in Manhattan. |
Website | www |
Fumihiko Maki (槇 文彦, Maki Fumihiko, born September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect who teaches at
Early life
Maki was born in
Career
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.[3] 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
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.[4]
After completing a $330 million expansion of the
Maki will be designing the
Works
Maki is known for fusing modernism with Japanese architectural traditions.[7] For instance, he introduced the concept of oku, which is a spatial layout unique to Japan in which spaces wind around a structure.[8][9] This is demonstrated in the use of walls and landscape in the Shimane Museum of Ancient Izumo.[10]
Maki's other notable projects include the following:
- Steinberg Hall at Washington University (1960s in St. Louis)
- Hillside Terrace (1969– in Tokyo)
- work at Kenzo Tange and others (1970, Osaka)
- St. Mary's International School (1971 In Tokyo.)
- Osaka Prefectural Sports Center (1972, Takaishi, Osaka)
- Spiral (1985, Tokyo)
- Okinawa Ocean Expo Aquarium(1975-2002, Okinawa)
- Makuhari Messe (1989, 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)[4]
- 51 Astor Place (2013 in Manhattan, New York)
- 150 Greenwich Street) of the new World Trade Center(2013 in Manhattan)
- Aga Khan Museum (2014 in Toronto)
- Skyline @ Orchard Boulevard (2015 in Singapore)
- Sea World Culture and Arts Center (2017 in Shekou)
- Aga Khan Centre (2018 in London)[11]
- Works in progress
- United Nations new building in New York City
- Andhra Pradesh capital city, Amaravati
- New city hall of Yokohama
- Reinhard Ernst Museum in Wiesbaden
Gallery of works
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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 (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)[4]
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Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2014)
Awards
- 1988: Wolf Prize in Arts
- 1993: Pritzker Architecture Prize
- 1993: International Union of Architects Gold Medal
- 1999: Praemium Imperiale
- 2011: AIA Gold Medal
References
- ^ "Part Laureates: Fumihiko Maki". PritzkerPrize.com. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
- ^ "Biography: Fumihiko Maki | The Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.pritzkerprize.com. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
- ^ "Fumihiko Maki - Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate - 1993". PritzkerPrize.com. Archived from the original on June 5, 2008.
- ^ a b c "Media Lab and SA+P Extension". MIT Facilities.
- ^ "The Approval Matrix". New York. November 4, 2013.
- ^ "Japan's Fumihiko Maki to design Aga Khan university in London". Architect Journal. 12 October 2012.
- ^ "Fumihiko Maki | Japanese architect". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2020-06-18.
- ISBN 9780815361374.
- ISBN 9780754677642.
- ISBN 9780415778909.
- ^ "Aga Khan Centre". Aga Khan Centre. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
Further reading
- Maki, Fumihiko, "Investigations in Collective Form", A Special Publication Number 2, The School of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis: June 1964
- 10 Stories of Collective Housing, by a+t research group. Chapter 8. Hillside Terrace. Fumihiko Maki. Tokio, 1967-1998
External links
- Maki and Associates, official site
- Pritzker Prize – Fumiho Maki Archived 2012-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- Interview with Fumihiko Maki (video)
- Images of Tower 4, WTC (photos)