Yoshio Taniguchi
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| Yoshio Taniguchi | |
| Born | 1937; Japan |
| Education | Keio University (1960); Harvard Graduate School of Design (1964) |
| Firms | Taniguchi Associates, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Kenzo Tange |
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- Private House at Yikigaya, Tokyo 1975
- Shiseido Art Museum, at Kakegawa, Japan, 1978.
- Ken Domon Museum of Photography, at Sakata City, Yamagata, Japan, 1983.
- Tokyo Sea Life Park, at Tokyo, Japan. 1989.
- Higashiyama Kaii Gallery at Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, 1990.
- Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Art, 1991.
- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, at Tokyo, Japan, 1995
- The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, at Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 1999.
- Tsukuba City Theater and Gymnasium 1999
- Museum of Modern Art (renovation), at New York City, New York, 1997 to 2006.
- South Entrance Pavilion, at Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 2001.
- Exhibition Gallery, Hiroshima City Naka Incineration Plant, 2004
- Kagawa Prefectural Higashiyama Kaii Setouchi Art Museum 2005
- Centennial Hall, at Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan, 2006.
- Asia House, Houston, Texas for the Texas branch of the Asia Society (in progress)
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[edit] Details
- Recipient of the Japan Art Association's annual Praemium Imperiale, 2005
[edit] Related Content from Wikipedia
Yoshio Taniguchi
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Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口吉生, Taniguchi Yoshio; born 1937) is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York which was reopened November 20, 2004.
Taniguchi is the son of architect Yoshirō Taniguchi ( 1904- 1979). He studied engineering at Keio University, graduating in 1960, and studied architecture at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, graduating in 1964. He worked briefly for architect Walter 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, at Tokyo 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 include Isamu Noguchi, American landscape architect Peter Walker, and artist Genichiro Inokuma. Taniguchi is best known for designing a number of Japanese museums, including the Nagano Prefectural Museum, the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, and the Gallery of the Hōryū-ji Treasures at the Tokyo 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
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[edit] References
- Dana Buntrock. "Yoshio Taniguchi: master of minimalism." Architecture, October 1996.
- The Architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi. Yoshio Taniguchi. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: New York. 1999. ISBN 0-8109-1997-4.
- The Architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi - Chapter One Excerpt, New York Times.
- Interview with Yoshio Taniguchi. Charlie Rose. 2001.0525. Taniguchi discusses the design for the Museum of Modern Art renovation.
- Charlie Rose: May 25, 2001 Interview at YouTube. Taniguchi segment beings at approx 17:55.
