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Fumihiko Maki (1928–2024) was a Japanese architect and Pritzker Prize laureate known for his refined urban sensibility, structural elegance, and the concept of oku — depth and layering in Japanese spatial experience. His buildings, including the Spiral in Tokyo and buildings at the World Trade Center site in New York, represent a sophisticated synthesis of Japanese architectural tradition and international modernism.
Maki’s Golgi Structures designed in 1968 by Fumihiko Maki was named after Nobel Prize-winner Camillo Golgi, who developed techniques for visualizing nerve cell bodies. The structure proposed by Maki alternates dense urban…
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In 1997, Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki completed the Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium in Nakatsu, Japan. The building’s design emphasizes what the architect called “transitional spaces,” wherein the functional rooms are…
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