Yoshio Taniguchi
Yoshio Taniguchi ( Japanese谷口 吉 生, Taniguchi Yoshio ; * 1937 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese architect.
He received his degree in mechanical engineering from Keiō University in 1960 and his master's degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1964 . From 1964 to 1972 he worked in the office of Kenzō Tange . During this time he worked on projects in Skopje in Yugoslavia and in San Francisco in California . In 1979 he founded Taniguchi and Associates.
Its central themes are: material, proportion, natural light and movement.
His buildings in Japan include the Shiseido Art Museum in Kakegawa , the Ken Domon Museum of Photography in Sakata , the Sea Life Park in Tokyo (1989), the Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art and the City Library in Marugame (1991), the Municipal Museum of Art in Toyota City (1995), the Kansai Rinkai Park View Point Visitors Center in Tokyo (1995) and the exhibition rooms of the Hōryū-ji treasury in the National Museum in Tokyo (1997-99), the Higashiyama Kaii Museum (2004) and the Heisei-Chishinkan extension (2013) of the Kyōto National Museum . In New York he won the competition for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) against well-known architects such as Rem Koolhaas , Bernard Tschumi , and Jacques Herzog / Pierre de Meuron , which he then planned from 2003 to 2004. Around 2006 he planned the Asia House Museum in Houston , Texas .
literature
- Philip Jodidio: Architecture Now! (Architecture today / L'architecture d'aujourd'hui); 2001, bags
Web links
- Literature by and about Yoshio Taniguchi in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Taniguchi, Yoshio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 谷口 吉 生 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo |