Taniguchi wins Praemium Imperiale.Yoshio Taniguchi Yoshio Taniguchi (谷口吉生, Taniguchi Yoshio; born 1937) is a Japanese architect best known for his redesign of the Museum of Modern Art in New York which was reopened November 20, 2004. has won the Praemium Imperiale The Praemium Imperiale is a prize for artists that has been awarded since 1989 at the suggestion of the Emperor of Japan. It is intended to be a "Nobel Prize in art" and an expansion on the Nobel Prize in Literature to other fields of fine art. Award for Architecture, one of a series of awards for artistic achievement made annually by the Japanese. Art Association (but rarely to a Japanese national). Born in 1937, Taniguchi studied at Keio and Harvard universities and worked for Kenzo Tange Noun 1. Kenzo Tange - Japanese architect (born in 1913) Tange before establishing his own practice. His buildings include the Shiseido Art Museum (1980), the Ken Domon Museum of Photography (1983); the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (1991); and the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures, Tokyo National Museum (1999). His design for the Museum of Modern Art, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (MoMA), completed last autumn (AR February 2005), has brought him worldwide attention. |
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