Yoshio Taniguchi

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Yoshio Taniguchi
Yoshio Taniguchi
Born	(1937-10-17)17 October 1937 Japanese Empire
Died	16 December 2024(2024-12-16) (aged 87)
Nationality	Japanese
Alma mater	Harvard Graduate School of Design
Occupation	Architect
Parent	Yoshirō Taniguchi (father)
Awards	Praemium Imperiale (2005) Person of Cultural Merit (2021)
Buildings	Museum of Modern Art (2004 redesign) Nagano Prefectural Museum of History Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art Toyota Municipal Museum of Art D. T. Suzuki Museum

Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口 吉生, Taniguchi Yoshio; 17 October 1937 – 16 December 2024) was a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, which was reopened on 20 November 2004. Critics have emphasized Taniguchi's fusion of traditional Japanese and Modernist aesthetics. Martin Filler, writing in The New York Times, praised "the luminous physicality and calm aura of Taniguchi's buildings," noting that the architect "sets his work apart by exploiting the traditional Japanese strategies of clarity, understatement, opposition, asymmetry and proportion."^[1] "In an era of glamorously expressionist architecture," wrote Time critic Richard Lacayo, MoMA "has opted for a work of what you might call old-fashioned Modernism, clean-lined and rectilinear, a subtly updated version of the glass-and-steel box that the museum first championed in the 1930s, years before that style was adopted for corporate headquarters everywhere."^[2]