Fumihiko Maki was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1928. Maki studied at the University of Tokyo and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills in Michigan. He obtained his master’s degree in architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Currently, at 91, he teaches at Keio University SFC.
Fumihiko Maki of Japan is an architect whose work is intelligent and artistic in concept and expression, meticulously achieved. He is a modernist who has fused the best of both eastern and western cultures to create an architecture representing the age-old qualities of his native country while at the same time juxtaposing contemporary construction methods and materials. – Pritzker Prize Jury Citation / 1993.
Steinberg Hall, Washington University
1960, St-Louis
Hillside Terrace
1969, Tokyo
Spiral
1985, Tokyo
Makuhari Messe
1989, Chiba
Keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus
1990, Kanagawa
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
1991, Tokyo
Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts
1993
Office Building Solitaire
2001, Dessuldorf
TV Asahi
2003, Tokyo
Mildred Lane Kamper Art Museum and Walker Hall at Washington University
2006, St-Louis
Republic Polytechnic
2006, Singapore
Aga Khan Museum
2014, Toronto
Skyline Orchard Boulevard
2015, Singapore
Sea World Culture and Arts Centre
2017, Shekou
Andrhra Pradesh Capital City
2019, Amaravati
New City Hall of Yokohama
2019, Yokohama
Reinhard Ernst Museum Wiesbaden
2019
Taipei Main Station of Taoyuan International Airport Access MRT System
2019, Taipei
United Nations New Building
2019, New York
DAVID MCCLURE says
Although I’m not a Modernist in my architecture preferences, Maki’s work is quite acceptable to me. Its openness and simplicity are attractive. As an elderly gentleman, he seems to have been quite prolific in 2019 with many structures created. It’s great that we have one of his designs here in Canada, the Museum in Toronto.