Yoshio Taniguchi

Biography
His father was the Japanese architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, who built the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.
1960 - graduated in Mechanical Engineering at Keio University in Tokyo
1964 - graduated from GSD Harvard University
1964-72 - briefly worked for Walter Gropius and then worked in the studio of Kenzo Tange
since 1972 - opened his own office
1978,1987 - taught at GSD Harvard University
1996 - became an honorary member of the American AIA
He became famous primarily for the Miesian atmosphere of his museum buildings, which evoke an almost hypnotic silence and tranquility with their aesthetics and color palette. In 1997, at the age of sixty, he won the invited competition for the expansion of the New York museum MoMA for 850 million USD. He never received any other commission of similar international significance before or after.