Main entry:

Taniguchi, Yoshio, 1937- author, architect.

Title & Author:

The architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi / Yoshio Taniguchi.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

Description:

282 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Opening text by Fumihiko Maki; commentaries on buildings and projects and essay by Yoshio Taniguchi.
"Originally published in Japan in 1996 by Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
Stillness and plenitude: The architecture of Yoshio Taniguchi / Fumihiko Maki -- Shiseido Art Museum -- Kanazawa Municipal Library -- Akita Municipal Library Meitokukan -- Ken Domon Museum of Photography -- Hotel Appi Grand -- Keio Gijuku Elementary School Gymnasium -- Tokyo Sea Life Park -- Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Higashiyama Kaii Gallery -- Sakata Kokutai Kinen Gymnasium -- IBM Japan Makuhari Technical Center -- Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Marugame City Library -- Keio Shonan-Fujisawa Junior and Senior High School -- Tokyo Kasai Rinkai Park, View Point Visitors Center -- Tsukuba City Theater and Arena -- Toyota Municipal Museum of Art -- Toyota City Tea-Ceremony Houses -- Learning architecture / Yoshio Taniguchi -- Tokyo National Museum, The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures -- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Architectural Competition, December 1997 -- Yoshio Taniguchi resume -- Project data.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Architect Yoshio Taniguchi designs buildings that are highly elegant and serene. A sense of clarity pervades each one. He brings to all his projects a sensitivity to site and pragmatic requirements, as well as to materials, light, color, and proportion. Over the past twenty years, Taniguchi has designed a wide range of structures, including art museums, gymnasia, libraries, schools, a hotel, an aquarium, and a tea house and garden, all in Japan. In 1997, he came to international attention when he won an invited competition to design the expansion of The Museum of Modern Art in New York." "Covered in this generously illustrated volume are nearly twenty of Taniguchi's buildings and projects, from his earliest, the Shiseido Art Museum, to his most recent, the Museum of Modern Art expansion. Taniguchi has written commentaries on each one, as well as a brief essay discussing his training and development as an architect. A second essay has been provided by another of Japan's leading architects, Fumihiko Maki. Together the photographs, drawings, and texts provide an in-depth look at the work of one of the most highly respected architects practicing today."-- Book Jacket.

ISBN:

0810919974
9780810919976

Subject:

Taniguchi, Yoshio, 1937- Catalogs.
Taniguchi, Yoshio.
Taniguchi, Yoshio, 1937- Catalogues.
Taniguchi, Yoshio, 1937-
Taniguchi, Yoshio Catalogs.
Architectural Competition (Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.) (1997)
Architecture Japan History 20th century Catalogs.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture Japon Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture.
Architects Japan 20th century Catalogs.
Japan.

Form/genre:

Catalog
Catalogues raisonnés.
catalogs (documents)
Catalogs.
History.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Maki, Fumihiko, 1928-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212038
Call No.: NA44.T1646.2 T3 1999
Status: Available