Fumihiko Maki

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Fumihiko Maki (槇文彦, Maki Fumihiko) (born Tokyo, September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect. 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. 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.

[edit] Works

• Spiral (1985 In Tokyo.)
• Makuhari Messe (1989 In Chiba.)
• Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (1991 in Sendagaya, Tokyo)
• TV Asahi (2003 In Tokyo.)
• Republic Polytechnic (2006 in Singapore)
• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (2006 in St. Louis)

[edit] Works in Progress

• Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa
• 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
• Media Lab Extension at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts

[edit] External links

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• Pritzker Prize Official Site - Fumiho Maki
• Maki and Associates Official Site