MAKI OPUS [Paperback]

A comprehensive career retrospective of Fumihiko Maki, the master of Japanese modernist architecture, richly illustrated and complete with detailed plans. Organized into chapters with such titles as Making Collective Form and Nature and the Rural Environmentrather than chronologicallythe book highlights recurring themes throughout Makis long and consequential career. Placed among the well-illustrated project profiles are essays by Maki, as well as by academics, critics, and other architects, providing insight not only into his individual buildings but also the philosophy behind them.