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fumihiko maki's vision of tokyo




Fumihiko Maki is one of the most prestigious contemporary japanese architects. In 1993 he received both the Pritzker Prize and the UIA Gold Medal. He is the chair of the Advisory Board of the forthcoming World Congress of Architecture that will take place in September this year. This video shows his vision of Tokyo, the city that will host the event.

Tokyo is a city made of layers that chaotically overlap in a very fragmented way, combining the remains of the huge Edo capital with the new city created after the 1923 earthquake and the reconstruction that followed the air raids in 1944 and 1945. How to respond to this specific context, where chaos is not exempt of a certain charm, is among his concerns. The Hillside Terrace complex is used as a reference building in his description of a city that remains vigorous despite the economic downturn.