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Fumihiko Maki
Fumihiko Maki studied with Kenzo Tange at the University of Tokyo, continued his education at Cranbrook and Harvard, and worked in American architectural offices.
Background & practice
Fumihiko Maki studied with Kenzo Tange at the University of Tokyo, continued his education at Cranbrook and Harvard, and worked in American architectural offices. Teaching at Washington University brought his first design commission, Steinberg Hall. His official biography describes an explicitly modernist practice attentive to technology, modular construction and a widening material palette. Architecture is framed as a setting for human interaction that also captures the character of a place and time.
How to read the work
Use available materials and technologies to make memorable settings for human interaction, maintaining spatial clarity while allowing construction systems and the character of each place to inform design.
Architect and teacher documented in a retrospective official biography.
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