Yoshio taniguchi nine museums near
They include the Tokyo National Museum, Marugami Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Art Museum, Ken Domon Museum of Photography, and Shiseido Art Museum..
Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums
Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Essay by Terence Riley.
The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history.
Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004-05 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. The 630,000-square-foot Museum will be nearly twice the size of the former facility, offering dramatically expanded and redesigned spaces for exhibitions, public programming, educational outreach, and scholarly research.
This exhibition presents nine of Taniguchi's museum designs central to understanding his approach to architecture.
But The Museum of Modern Art is not Taniguchi's first museum, though it is his first museum in the United States. The architect has been designing museums in his native Japan since 1978. In celebration of the opening of the new MoMA building, the Museum is publishing this book about Taniguchi's museums--nine in all.
They include the Tokyo National Museum, Marugami Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Art Mus