Fumihiko Maki returns to Washington University in St. Louis, where his career began, to create the sam fox arts center

摘要

Rarely does an architect get the chance to add significantly to, much less transform, work done decades before. For the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the potential for a new arts center at Washington University in St. Louis brought him back to the campus where he had taught and designed his first project, more than 40 years ago. The Sam Fox Arts Center, situated at the southeastern border of the 13,500-student campus, tested Maki's powers of urban and collegiate planning over the nine-year period of its gestation. Opened in 2006, the center's two primary buildings bring modernity to the red-granite Collegiate Gothic campus while knitting together formerly disparate disciplines and three existing structures into a unified place.