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# Yoshio Taniguchi

(1937–2024)   Architect

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Yoshio Taniguchi was an architect, best known for *The architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi*.

## Quick Facts About Yoshio Taniguchi

Born October 17, 1937

Died December 16, 2024

Profession Architect

Notable works The architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi

## About Yoshio Taniguchi

Yoshio Taniguchi 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." "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."

##  Quotes by Yoshio Taniguchi

> [When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yoshio-taniguchi/when-drawings-of-the-main-buildings-i-have-designed-in-the-last-five/)

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> [When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yoshio-taniguchi/when-a-project-has-an-ample-budget-i-am-interested-now-in-using/)

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> [Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yoshio-taniguchi/architecture-is-basically-a-container-of-something-i-hope-they-will/)

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