Fumihiko Maki (1928-), recipient of numerous international awards including the Pritzker Prize, is one of the world's foremost architects, universally acclaimed for his long-standing design activities and his work. He has designed not only our campus, but also many buildings at Keio University, most notably the libraries in Fujisawa, Mita, and Hiyoshi. In Japan, he has been awarded the AIJ Prize twice, and his many works include the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Makuhari Messe, and Yokohama City Hall, but it is his international activities and reputation that deserve special mention. He has also been recognized as a practical theorist who introduced Japanese architectural thought to the world. His ideas, which place Japanese cities and their spatiality in the context of the global trend of modernism since the Edo period, have attracted worldwide attention from the perspective of the conflict between localism and globalism in the environment. His work has been highly acclaimed and has been invited to design buildings that symbolize the region and the era around the world, including the WTC site in New York, MIT Media Lab, Bihar Museum in India, Singapore Institute of Technology, the Aga Khan Foundation London Headquarters, and Shenzhen World Culture Center.
Keio University SFC has received a donation from Mr. Fumihiko Maki of valuable materials such as sketches, drawings, models, photographs, manuscripts of his writings, publications, correspondence, etc., which he owned and kept in his possession, and has decided to collect, organize, store, and collect them for future use in research and educational activities both inside and outside Japan. We have decided to collect, organize, store, and collect these materials and to make them available to the public through exhibitions and data for future use in research and educational activities in Japan and abroad. The "Fumihiko Maki Archive Room," located on the renovated fourth floor of the Media Center, which overlooks the entire SFC space designed by Mr. Maki, will not only display and introduce to visitors from around the world the architectural works of Mr. Maki, who has embodied the educational philosophy of Keio University, but will also serve as a historical research resource for current and former students as well as for the public. The aim is to create a digital archive that can be used not only by current students but also by people from all over the world as a historical research resource. We plan to collaborate with the Keio University Art Center, Keio Museum Commons, and the Center for Integrated Research on Digital Media and Content at Keio University in order to create multifaceted and cutting-edge digital content that goes beyond the mere creation of image data.
This class is designed to help students understand the international trend of urbanism and the historical significance of design activities through the works and footsteps of Mr. Fumihiko Maki, and at the same time, to make the creation of analytical results itself a learning opportunity as a teaching material in which elements and applicable specific knowledge that those studying architectural design should master are accumulated. The course provides a practical learning process about the philosophy of Fumihiko Maki, who advocated humanism in architecture, especially for students who aim to study and research architecture and urban design, utilizing the international trend of urbanism and the position of holding valuable materials on the works and philosophy of the architect Fumihiko Maki.