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Fumihiko Maki
Author(s) -
Taylor Jennifer
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.197
Subject(s) - coining (mint) , engineering , sociology , history , archaeology
The Japanese Pritzker Prize winning architect Fumihiko Maki is credited with coining the term ‘megastructure’. Here, Jennifer Taylor describes how he has refined it, and defined a specific way of handling urban megacompositions that he calls ‘group form’, over the course of a career spanning more than four decades.