FUMIHIKO MAKI - Softcover

MAKI AND ASSOCIATES

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500280312 ISBN 13: 9780500280317

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1999

Synopsis

Recognized as one of Japan's finest architects, Fumihiko Maki reached a greater audience in the 1990s with the completion of his first major projects in the United States and Europe - the Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco, and the Isar Buropark in Munich. This study focuses on 25 of the architect's buildings, tracing the evolution of his ideas and architectural vocabulary. Arranged thematically, a range of work is featured, from a small house in Poland to the massive construction of the Makuhari Messe complex on Tokyo Bay. The text includes essays by Botond Bognar, Paolo Polledri, Kenichi Echigoshima and Alex Krieger as well as excerpts from "Investigations in Collective Form", written by Maki in 1964 and the basis for much of his subsequent practice.

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Review:

Fumihiko Maki enjoys the reputation of consistently creating an architecture that, aside from responding to society's needs, also comprises a constructional fabric which is durable and aesthetically vibrant. Kenneth Frampton

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0500280312
• ISBN 13: 9780500280317
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272