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The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004-05 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. But The Museum of Modern Art is not Taniguchi's first museum, though it is his first museum in the United States. The architect has been designing museums in his native Japan since 1978.

In celebration of the opening of the new MoMA building, the Museum is publishing this book about Taniguchi's museums--nine in all. They include the Tokyo National Museum, Marugami Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Art Museum, Ken Domon Museum of Photography, and Shiseido Art Museum.

Taniguchi: Nine Museums will discuss the plans of each of these museums with an emphasis on The Museum of Modern Art's new building. In this museum, art, architecture, and people contribute to a total environment--as in the Japanese tea ceremony, where the teacup is very simple in form and color. Once the tea's poured, the teacup transforms into a whole new object involving the temperature of the tea, its color, its smell. That's the environment. --Yoshio Taniguchi Essay by Terence Riley.

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Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi, Terence Riley
The Museum of Modern Art is now in the midst of the largest building project in its history. Designed by Yoshio Taniguchi, the new Museum will reopen in midtown Manhattan in winter 2004-05 to coincide with its 75th anniversary. But The Museum of Modern Art is not Taniguchi's first museum, though it is his first museum in the United States. The architect has been designing museums in his native Japan since 1978. In celebration of the opening of the new MoMA building, the Museum is publishing this book about Taniguchi's museums--nine in all. They include the Tokyo National Museum, Marugami Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagano Art Museum, Ken Domon Museum of Photography, and Shiseido Art Museum. Taniguchi: Nine Museums will discuss the plans of each of these museums with an emphasis on The Museum of Modern Art's new building. In this museum, art, architecture, and people contribute to a total environment--as in the Japanese tea ceremony, where the teacup is very simple in form and color. Once the tea's poured, the teacup transforms into a whole new object involving the temperature of the tea, its color, its smell. That's the environment. --Yoshio Taniguchi Essay by Terence Riley. _ Copyright Amazon.com
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