Maki opus / Maki and Associates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maki and Associates, author.

Contributor:

Kamemoto, Gary, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maki, Fumihiko, 1928-2024.

Maki, Fumihiko.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

400 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2025

Summary:

"A comprehensive career retrospective of Fumihiko Maki, the master of Japanese modernist architecture, richly illustrated and complete with detailed plans. This impressive volume on Maki's work was compiled in close collaboration with his studio both before and after his passing. It brings together the architect's own selection of the buildings that have best exemplified his career and seen him pave the way for the next wave of superlative Japanese architects, such as Kengo Kuma and SANAA. Featuring 50 buildings from 1960 to the present day, the book reconsiders Maki's work in light of his use of materials, changes in building technology, and his relationship with the world outside Japan. In this book, Maki's team throws open the practice's archives to find photographs and drawings never before seen in print, allowing the reader a fresh look at his best-known projects. Maki was truly an architect's architect, respected throughout the industry for his technical innovation and his deep understanding of how people use and experience buildings. Architecture students will find inspiration in his early years starting out under the tutelage of Kenzo Tange, while a general architecture-interested audience will enjoy vibrant full-color photography of his lauded, understated, and much copied style, described by many as the "architecture of simplicity."

Contents:

Foreword / Gary Kamemoto

Formative years

My Tokyo

Making collective form

Participating in collective form

Nature and the rural environment

Religious buildings

Building in campus

Modernism and Islamic culture

Making a living environment

Children's world

Technology and construction

In Asia

Internationalism and New Humanism

Material and spirit.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0500024405

9780500024409

OCLC:

1499981124

Publisher Number:

CIPO000331616