Architect - Fumihiko Maki

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About Architect - Fumihiko Maki

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. 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[1] until 2006, when he finished the new home for the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (also at Washington University). 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.

Works
* St. Mary's International School (1971 In Tokyo.)
* Spiral (1985 In Tokyo.)
* Makuhari Messe (1989 In Chiba.)
* Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (1991 in Sendagaya, Tokyo)
* Center For The Art Yerba Buena Gardens (1993 in San Francisco)
* TV Asahi (2003 In Tokyo.)
* Republic Polytechnic (2006 in Singapore)
* Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (2006 in St. Louis)