Tadayasu SAKAI Art Critic Kiichi SUMIKAWA Sculptor Kan YASUDA Sculptor Fumihiko MAKI Architect Yoshio TANIGUCHI Architect Shoichi KAJIMA Director and Senior Advisor of Kajima Corporation

1928 Born in Tokyo 1952 Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, continued studies at Cranbrook Academy of Art, then Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 1965 - present Principal of Maki and Associates Meanwhile, served as professor at the University of Tokyo from 1979 to 1989. Major works include: Hillside Terrace Complex Spiral The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Makuhari Messe Kaze-no-Oka Crematorium MIT Media Lab Complex, etc. Major awards include: Architectural Institute of Japan Award Japan Art Academy Grand Prize Mainichi Art Prize The Asahi Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize UIA Gold Medal H.I.H. Prince Takamatsu Praemium Imperiale