http://www.moma.org/expansion/charette/architects/taniguchi/
Born in Tokyo, 1937
Education: Keio University, Tokyo, 1960; Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1964
Selected projects: Higashiyama Kaii Gallery, Nagano City, Japan, 1990; Marugame GenichiroInokuma Museum, Japan, 1991; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan, 1995
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=9873
NEW YORK, NEW YORK.-Deepti Hajela of the Associated Press reported that the newly renovated and hugely expanded Museum of Modern Art will reopen its Manhattan doors to the public on Nov. 20, marking the end of an $858 million reconstruction project and commemorating its 75th anniversary.
"It will be an extraordinarily beautiful building that will be a terrific addition to New York's architecture as well as an incredible home for the museum's outstanding collection," Glenn Lowry, museum director, said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
The Japanese architect Yoshio Taniquchi designed the new installations which increased exhibition space from 85,000 square feet to 125,000 square feet. One of the MoMA's priorities was to create more space visually and a 110-foot atrium with glass as a building material was used to achieve that effect.
"The redesigned museum will feature contemporary art, prints and illustrated books and a cafe on the second floor. Architecture and design, drawings, photography and temporary exhibits will be on the third floor. Painting and sculpture will occupy the fourth and fifth floors, and temporary exhibitions will be on the sixth floor, " reported the Associated Press.
"The collection will be better. There will be substantially more of the collection and it will be better displayed," Lowry said. "The building as a whole will be far more accommodating so we can bring in larger numbers of visitors and school groups. It will give us a much more generous platform to work from. There will be new works of art ... hundreds, if not more. We've been building the collection for the past five years in anticipation of the opening--major works, iconic works, including Jasper Johns' "Diver" and Pablo Picasso's "Pregnant Woman," a plaster from 1950."
To celebrate the museum's opening the exhibition "Nine Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi" is scheduled to be the opening display in the galleries for temporary exhibits on the third floor, presenting MoMA along with the other art museums Taniguchi has designed over the last 25 years.
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The analogy to metabolic theory in (Molecular and Cell Biochemistry) biology is evident in his work. This is a good example of an analog model.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:0dWZbdz6DnsJ:www.nd.edu/~networks/PDF/BioNetworks_Sept03.pdf+metabolic+architecture&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"Understanding complex systems often requires a botom-up approach, breaking the system into small and elementary constituents and mapping out the interactions between thee components. . ."
This is systems theory at its best. It involves analysis of systems into (1) elements, (2) components, and (3) sub-systems. Of course, "The System" may be considered GOD for lack of any possible word to describe it.
How these parts work together is the basis for the architecture.
His concern for metamoprphosis, the changing of form, in the architecture, provides a valuable attitude of dynamics towards the design of form and space.
He is doing nothing new. He is still thinking about structural, mechanical (envorinmental), electrical, and architectural systems by this approach. New names (or jargon), old ideas. . .
I like the power in the easy and simple drawings leading to the $858 million reconstruction project!
.H.
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Born in Tokyo, 1937
Education: Keio University, Tokyo, 1960; Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1964
Selected projects: Higashiyama Kaii Gallery, Nagano City, Japan, 1990; Marugame GenichiroInokuma Museum, Japan, 1991; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan, 1995
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=9873
NEW YORK, NEW YORK.-Deepti Hajela of the Associated Press reported that the newly renovated and hugely expanded Museum of Modern Art will reopen its Manhattan doors to the public on Nov. 20, marking the end of an $858 million reconstruction project and commemorating its 75th anniversary.
"It will be an extraordinarily beautiful building that will be a terrific addition to New York's architecture as well as an incredible home for the museum's outstanding collection," Glenn Lowry, museum director, said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
The Japanese architect Yoshio Taniquchi designed the new installations which increased exhibition space from 85,000 square feet to 125,000 square feet. One of the MoMA's priorities was to create more space visually and a 110-foot atrium with glass as a building material was used to achieve that effect.
"The redesigned museum will feature contemporary art, prints and illustrated books and a cafe on the second floor. Architecture and design, drawings, photography and temporary exhibits will be on the third floor. Painting and sculpture will occupy the fourth and fifth floors, and temporary exhibitions will be on the sixth floor, " reported the Associated Press.
"The collection will be better. There will be substantially more of the collection and it will be better displayed," Lowry said. "The building as a whole will be far more accommodating so we can bring in larger numbers of visitors and school groups. It will give us a much more generous platform to work from. There will be new works of art ... hundreds, if not more. We've been building the collection for the past five years in anticipation of the opening--major works, iconic works, including Jasper Johns' "Diver" and Pablo Picasso's "Pregnant Woman," a plaster from 1950."
To celebrate the museum's opening the exhibition "Nine Museums by Yoshio Taniguchi" is scheduled to be the opening display in the galleries for temporary exhibits on the third floor, presenting MoMA along with the other art museums Taniguchi has designed over the last 25 years.
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NOTE:
The analogy to metabolic theory in (Molecular and Cell Biochemistry) biology is evident in his work. This is a good example of an analog model.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:0dWZbdz6DnsJ:www.nd.edu/~networks/PDF/BioNetworks_Sept03.pdf+metabolic+architecture&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
"Understanding complex systems often requires a botom-up approach, breaking the system into small and elementary constituents and mapping out the interactions between thee components. . ."
This is systems theory at its best. It involves analysis of systems into (1) elements, (2) components, and (3) sub-systems. Of course, "The System" may be considered GOD for lack of any possible word to describe it.
How these parts work together is the basis for the architecture.
His concern for metamoprphosis, the changing of form, in the architecture, provides a valuable attitude of dynamics towards the design of form and space.
He is doing nothing new. He is still thinking about structural, mechanical (envorinmental), electrical, and architectural systems by this approach. New names (or jargon), old ideas. . .
I like the power in the easy and simple drawings leading to the $858 million reconstruction project!
.H.
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