The Noguchi Museum has announced that Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi and designer Jasper Morrison will be the recipients of its second annual Isamu Noguchi Award, to be given in a ceremony on May 19, 2015. The museum grants the award to artisans whose work exemplifies a sensibility similar to that of artist Isamu Noguchi, whose multidisciplinary art is showcased at the museum. The first year's prizes were given to Norman Foster and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Image via Japan Daily. Taniguchi is a celebrated architect known for projects that show a restrained, modernist approach, including the 2004 Museum of Modern Art expansion, his first project outside of Japan. He won the commission for it in 1997, selected from a pool of architects that included Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron. Taniguchi's father, Yoshiro Taniguchi, was a well-known architect, and after completing graduate studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 1965, the younger Taniguchi worked under architect Kenzo Tange, later starting Taniguchi & Associates in 1979. The firm's first project was the Ken Domon Museum of Photography, a photography museum. The MoMA expansion and redesign. Images by Timothy Hursley ...
The Noguchi Museum has announced that Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi and designer Jasper Morrison will be the recipients of its second annual Isamu Noguchi Award, to be given in a ceremony on May 19, 2015. The museum grants the award to artisans whose work exemplifies a sensibility similar to that of artist Isamu Noguchi, whose multidisciplinary art is showcased at the museum. The first year's prizes were given to Norman Foster and photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Architect Yoshio Taniguchi. Image via Japan Daily. Taniguchi is a celebrated architect known for projects that show a restrained, modernist approach, including the 2004 Museum of Modern Art expansion, his first project outside of Japan. He won the commission for it in 1997, selected from a pool of architects that included Rem Koolhaas and Herzog & de Meuron. Taniguchi's father, Yoshiro Taniguchi, was a well-known architect, and after completing graduate studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design in 1965, the younger Taniguchi worked under architect Kenzo Tange, later starting Taniguchi & Associates in 1979. The firm's first project was the Ken Domon Museum of Photography, a photography museum. The MoMA expansion and redesign. Images by Timothy Hursley ...