Fumihiko Maki
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Maki at the MIT Media Lab in March 2010
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| Born |
September 6, 1928 Tokyo, Japan |
| 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 |
| Website | www |
| Practice | Maki and Associates |
| 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.
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 master's degree in 1953. He then studied at 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.
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