“Raise even more money, and I’ll make the architecture disappear”—these were Yoshio Taniguchi’s famous words addressed to MoMA’s Board of Trustees, according to Hal Foster. Taniguchi expanded MoMA between 1997 and 2004, a whopping $850 million project. His only other U.S. work was Houston’s Asia Society Texas Center, completed in 2011.
Taniguchi died on December 16 after battling pneumonia. News of Taniguchi’s passing was confirmed by his company, Taniguchi & Associates. The modernist from Japan was 87.
The late architect often described architecture as “a process of synthesizing many needs and structural considerations into one unifying theme.”
MoMA Courtyard (Alsandro/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 2.5)
Taniguchi was born
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