Fumihiko Maki
Recent
Works
 Monday 22 September 1997
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"Amid ... universal dissolution
of narrative form, Maki has succeeded in preserving a balance
between harmonic rules and atonality, between representation and its
disappearance, by infusing the cloud-whole with an uncanny, elusive
subjective quality. Maki's building first take shape as a dense and precise network of lines, a cross-section of a growth process in which form gradually crystallizes out of the undifferentiated void without yet reaching stable equilibrium. The grid of lines drawn on the paper captures the exact state of resolution of the field of possibilities, neither less or more." ---Serge Salat Fumihiko Maki graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1954 and earned a further degree at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. Besides teaching in the United States from 1958-65, he also worked for SOM and for Joseph Lluis Sert before returning to Japan in 1965 to establish his own form. The major awards he received include the Japan Institute of Architecture Award (1963, 1985), the Reynolds Memorial Award (1987), the Wolf Foundation Prize (1988) and the Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture (1990). He was also awarded the 1993 Pritzker Prize, the UIA Gold Medal and the Prince of Wales Prize in Urban Design. |
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