The architecture of Fumihiko Maki in Paris

At the Japanese cultural house in Paris, Fumihiko Maki shows his most significant works, the second in a series of exhibitions dedicated to contemporary Japanese architects. The curators’ attention is focused on both the apartments and commercial activity created at Hillside Terrace and Hillside West in Tokyo in 1969, and on other recent important works - such as the Royal Denmark Embassy or the Kirishima Concert Hall -, where the vision of a modernist architecture, seen as an expression of space that surrounds and revolves around human activity, is most evident.

Born in Tokyo in 1928, he worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill in New York and for Sert Jackso and Associates in Cambridge before returning to Japan in 1960 where he founded Maki and Associates. Winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize and considered, according to Tadao Ando, one of the most important Japanese architects.

From February 12 to April 6, 2002
Fumihiko Maki
Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
101 bis, quai Branly, Paris
Tel. +33-01-44379500
http://www.mcjp.asso.fr

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Fujisawa Municipal Gym, Fujisawa, Japan. Photo by Hiroshi Kolb

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