Yoshio Taniguchi died on December 16. The cause, according to a statement by his Tokyo-based firm, Taniguchi and Associates, was pneumonia. He was 87.
The son of a famous architect, Yoshiro Taniguchi, the younger Taniguchi was a virtual unknown in the United States when he was selected in 1997 to design the Museum of Modern Art’s expansion in New York—his first building outside Japan—beating out Herzog & de Meuron, Steven Holl, and Rem Koolhaas for the coveted commission.
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