Fumihiko Maki

Fumihiko Maki (Japanese: 槇文彦 ) was born with Tōkyō the September 6th 1928. It is a contemporary Architecte Japan board, in particular prize winner of the Prix Pritzker in 1993.

Formation

He studies architecture with the Université of Tōkyō of which he is graduate in 1952. Among its professors Kenzō Tange appears, fifteen years its elder.

It continues its formation with the the United States, passing its Master in Cranbrook Academy off Art structures about it (1953) and with the Université of Harvard (1954).

It remains then until 1965 in the United States where it works in particular for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill as for Sert Jackson and Associates. In addition to its Japanese and American Masters, it is strongly influenced by European architecture, in particular Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus of Walter Gropius.

Course

In 1965, it turns over to Tōkyō and founds its own agency, Maki and Associates. It is a small structure which prefers to join groups more important according to the size of the projects.

In parallel, he teaches of 1979 to 1989 at the university of Tōkyō and publishes several works.

In 1993, Fumihiko Maki is the second Japanese to receive the Prix Pritzker of Architecture, left Nobel Prize of Architecture. Its Master Kenzō Tange had received it in 1987.

In July 2003, Fumihiko Maki, associated with Jean Nouvel (France), and Norman Foster (Great Britain) were selected to build three of the five turns of the reconstruction project of the site “Ground Zero” of rebuilding of the World Trade Center, with New York, project entrusted, for its unit, with the American Daniel Libeskind.

At the beginning of 2004, It gained the contest for the extension of the palate of UNO in New York. Associated with the American agency Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, they will carry out an office building of 35 stages which will be delivered in 2008, of a cost of approximately 330 million American dollars.

The contest, on invitation, was reserved to the winners of the Pritzker Price.

Style and characteristics

Fumihiko Maki can invent its own style, resolutely modern, but respectful of the natural impulses and the singularities of the Japanese culture.

It often refers to the insane parts of hide-and-seek of the children and to the “prospect and places of refuge” which enable them to see without being seen.

It builds ways of circulation in loop which lead to sheltered places offering a goal to reach.

It introduces the notion of the Oku , these space layers overlapping which dissimulate but entirely do not hide. He is opposed to the architecture manichéenne, completely opaque or completely transparent which proliferates in the modern cities.

Concretely its architecture is made of Béton, metal and glass, but it can also integrate the mosaic , the Aluminum anodized and it wood in interior installations. In Japan, where the antiseismic standards are Draconian, it can exploit lightness to respect these constraints.

It can lead projects over unusual durations for an architect. The example more striking is the project of center of populations, offices and trade of Hillside Terrace Complex, in Tōkyō- Shibuya. It controls the project since the first phase in 1969 until the fourth phase in 1992.

Its principal achievements

1960: Nagoya University Toyoda Memorial Hall Auditorium Higashiyama, Nagoya
1962: Chiba University Memorial Auditorium
1969: Hillside Terrace Complex; phase 1; Shibuya, Tōkyō
1971: Kanazawa Ward Office Yokohama
1973: Hillside Complex Terrace; phase 2; Shibuya, Tōkyō
1974: Tsukuba University Center for School off Arts & Physical Education Tsukuba, Ibaraki
1977: Hillside Complex Terrace; phase 3; Shibuya, Tōkyō
1977: Kota Kinabaru Sports Complex and Park, Sabah Pool, Malaysia
1978: Iwasaki Art Ibusuki Museum, Kagoshima
1978: Sea Side Town; Kanazawa; Yokohama, Kanagawa
1979: Royal Danish Embassy; Shibuya, Tōkyō
1981: Kyoto Center Kraft, Kyoto
1984: Municipal Fujisawa Gymnasium Fujisawa, Kanagawa
1985: Tsukuba Expo '85 International Pavilions has Tsukuba, Ibaraki
1985: West Plaza in Central Yokohama Station Yokohama, Kanagawa
1986: National Museum off Modern Art, Kyōto
1987: Hillside Plaza Shibuya Hall, Tōkyō
1989: Toyama Shimin Plaza Musical Hall, Toyama
1989: TEPIA, Tōkyō
1989: Makuhari Mass, Chiba
1990: Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium Sendagaya, Tōkyō
1992: Hillside Complex Terrace; phase 4; Shibuya, Tōkyō
1993: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; California, the USA
1993: YKK R & D Center Sumida, Tōkyō
1994: International Kirishima Concert Hall; Makizono, Kagoshima
1995: Isar Büropark; Munich, Germany
1996: Floating Pavilion; Groningue, Netherlands
1997: Kaze-No-Oka Crematorium; Nakatsu, Oita
1998: Makuhari Mass II, North Hall; Chiba
1999: International Toyama Conference Center, Toyama
2001: Maki Solitare; Düsseldorf, Germany
2002: TRIAD offices, shopping mall, Azumi, Nagano
2002: Head office Rolex, Tōkyō
2003: Yokohama I-Land Tower offices and hall of exposures
2003: TV Asahi, Tōkyō

Projects in progress or future

Extension of the shipping Terminal of Hong-Kong
New building of the head office of UNO in New York
2003 Fumihiko Maki, associated with Jean Nouvel, and Norman Foster were selected to build three of the five turns of the reconstruction project of the site Ground Zero of rebuilding of the World Trade Center, with New York, project entrusted for its unit, as well as the highest tower, the Freedom Tower (which should become the highest tower of the world) with the American Daniel Libeskind.

Source

initial Source http://nezumi.dumousseau.free.fr/japon/fmaki.htm

External bond

Fumihiko Maki on ARCHIGUIDE

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