Japanese architect Maki, credited with fusing East with West, has died at age 95

By YURI KAGEYAMA
Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who won the prestigious Pritzker Prize for designs praised as smartly and artfully fusing the East with the West, has died. He was 95. His office, Maki & Associates, said Wednesday he died on June 6. It declined to give further details. The National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto is considered one of Maki’s classic designs, with floating forms of glass, metal and concrete. In the U.S., his projects included the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and 4 World Trade Center in New York. He also designed the Makuhari Messe exhibition hall in Japan.