- Yoshio Taniguchi
Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口吉生, "Taniguchi Yoshio"; born 1937) is a
Japan ese architect best known for his redesign of theMuseum of Modern Art inNew York which was reopenedNovember 20 ,2004 .Taniguchi is the son of architect
Yoshirō Taniguchi (1904-1979). He studied engineering atKeio University , graduating in 1960, and studied architecture atHarvard University 's Graduate School of Design, graduating in 1964. He worked briefly for architectWalter Gropius , who became an important influence.From 1964 to 1972, Taniguchi worked for the studio of architect
Kenzo Tange , who was perhaps the most important Japanese modernist architect, atTokyo University . While in the Tange office, Taniguchi also worked on projects in Skopje, Yugoslavia and San Francisco, California (Yerba Buena), living on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley while involved in the latter project. Important later collaborators includeIsamu Noguchi , American landscape architect Peter Walker, and artistGenichiro Inokuma . Taniguchi is best known for designing a number of Japanese museums, including theNagano Prefectural Museum , theMarugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art , theToyota Municipal Museum of Art , and the Gallery of theHōryū-ji Treasures at theTokyo National Museum .Taniguchi won a competition in 1997 to redesign the Museum of Modern Art, beating out ten other internationally renowned architects, including
Rem Koolhaas ,Bernard Tschumi , and Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. The MoMA commission was Taniguchi's first work outside Japan.Taniguchi has since won a commission to design the Asia House for the Texas branch of the Asia Society. This $40 million project will be located in Houston's museum district and will be Taniguchi's first free-standing new building in the United States.
Further reading
*Dana Buntrock. "Yoshio Taniguchi: master of minimalism." "Architecture", October 1996.
External links
* [http://www.moma.org/expansion/architect.html Museum of Modern Art biography]
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