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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.
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