Born 1928 in Tokyo, Japan. Graduated from the Department of Architecture in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1952. Completed master's degrees at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and Sert Jackson and Associates. Associate professor of urban design at Washington University and Harvard University. Established Maki and Associates in 1965 upon returning to Japan. Professor at the University of Tokyo until 1989. Awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1993 and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Gold Medal in 2011. Publications include Kioku no keisho [Embodiment of Memories*] (Chikuma Shobo), Tadayou modanizumu [Drifting Modernism*] (Sayusha), and Nurturing Dreams (MIT Press).

* Asterisked titles have been translated from Japanese.

【Speaker at the Windowology Symposium on October 3】