Yoshio Taniguchi

Yoshio Taniguchi (Japanese谷口 吉 生, Yoshio Taniguchi; * 1937 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese architect.

He received in 1960 his diploma in mechanical engineering from Keio University in 1964 and his master's degree in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 1964 to 1972 he worked in the office of Kenzo Tange. During this time he worked on projects in Skopje in Yugoslavia and San Francisco in California. In 1979 he founded the office 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, Sakata, the Sea Life Park in Tokyo (1989 ), the Genichiro - Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art and the city library in Marugame ( 1991), which Municipal Museum of Art in Toyota City (1995), the Kansai Rinkai Parkview Point Visitors Center, 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 Centennial Hall of the Kyoto National Museum (2006) in Kyoto. In New York he won against very renowned architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Tschumi, and Jacques Herzog / de Meuron competition for the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA), which he then planned from 2003 to 2004. He designed the museum around 2006 Asia House in Houston, Texas.