Fumihiko Maki

Fumihiko Maki (1928 to 2024) was a Tokyo-born Japanese architect who called himself a modernist and won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993. He studied with Kenzo Tange at the University of Tokyo, earning his Bachelor of Architecture in 1952, spent a year at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and completed a Master of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After apprenticeships at Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and at Sert Jackson and Associates, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis, where he designed Steinberg Hall, and then joined the Harvard Graduate School of Design faculty from 1962 to 1965. In 1965 he returned to Japan and founded Maki and Associates in Tokyo. His buildings favor metal, concrete and glass and aim to create unforgettable scenes that accommodate human interaction.