The first special exhibition Fumihiko Maki – Maki and Associates: Towards Humane Architecture is dedicated to the architect, who was born in 1928. It will be on view from 23rd June 2024 – 16th February 2025.
The exhibition shows models of some of the Pritzker Prize winner’s outstanding projects, including Tower 4 World Trade Center in New York. The museum buildings are also presented, including the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto (completed in 2014), the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in California (1993) and the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (1986). The Museum Reinhard Ernst is the tenth museum building in this high-calibre series.
In 1985, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his architecture firm Maki and Associates, Fumihiko Maki expressed his dream of realising ten museums. Today, almost 40 years later, we congratulate him with this exhibition, which tells the ‘making of’ of the mre as the tenth museum and at the same time presents Maki’s other art buildings.
A wide variety of cultural and educational institutions in Japan, China, India, Canada and the USA bear witness to Maki’s mastery in this field: from the Japanese National Museum of Art in Kyoto in 1986 to the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, USA, in 2006 and the Indian Bihar Museum in Patna in 2017.
The history and special features of the mre and its ‘museum siblings’ are used to illustrate Maki’s architectural language and principles.
Culture, education and community describe the ethical and social guiding principles that Fumihiko Maki and Reinhard Ernst shared and which connected them as friends for a long time.
Photos: Helbig and Marburger
After visiting the temporary exhibition, discover the architecture tour in our media guide.
In 2022, a publication on the architectural development of the museum and its special features was produced for the exhibition “Making the Museum Reinhard Ernst” at the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin. You can purchase the book in the museum shop on site or online.
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