Taniguchi, Yoshio, 1937- (1937-)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1937-
Biography
Yoshio Taniguchi, born in 1937, is a Japanese architect known best as the designer of the early 21st-century expansion of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He earned a degree in mechanical engineering from Keiō University in Tokyo and a master's degree in architecture from Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He spent some time teaching architecture before establishing his own practice in Tokyo in 1975. In 1997, MoMA selected Taniguchi's design for the museum's planned expansion. In 2005, he received the Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale Prize.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Symposium records, 2005
folder
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.10.1.2.2
Scope and Contents
Includes the papers and presentation delivered at the 2005 Symposium "Building Style." The names of the presenters and the title of their presentations contained in this folder are: Rebecca Jumper Matheson, "'A House that is Made of Hats': Fashion and Architecture in the Lilly Dashé Building;" Cassandra Gero, "Fashionable, Temporary and Flashy: Ready-to-Wear Environments by Archigram;" Mei-Hsueh Hung, "Silent Spaces: Balenciaga and Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp;" Nele Burnheim, "Carte...
Dates:
2005