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Yoshio Taniguchi
Japanese architect
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- born
- 1937
- died
- 2024
- age at death
- 87
- known for
- architect
1937 – 2024
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who yoshio taniguchi is
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…
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