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Monday, May 9, 2011

FUMIHIKO MAKI__

Maki wins 2011 Gold Medal

American Institute of Architects to award Japan’s Fumihiko Maki with the prestigious 2011 Gold Medal.

interview with MAKI 

Fumihiko Maki: Making History Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki discusses his prolific career and modernist traditions with David Neustein.

his BIOGRAPHY

Maki, who was born in Tokyo on September 6, 1928, studied with Tange at the University of Tokyo where he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1952. Maki then spent the next year at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfeld Hills, Michigan where Eliel Saarinen’s infuence on the curriculum and as designer of the school’s buildings was signifcant. 

ALVARO SIZA

'What I appreciate and look for most in architecture is clarity and simplism. Simplicity and simplism are known to be opposites, just as unity and diversity are not. Simplicity results from the control of complexity and the contradictions of any programme. Complexity and internal contradictions - external, also, when a new structure is confronted with what preceeded and what surrounds it, taking on a not necessarily predictable destiny. For this reason, the more character a building has and the clearer its form, the more flexible its vocation.'