Riley, Terence — Yoshio Taniguchi: Nine Museums

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2004. Hardcover. Black cloth, dark gray dust jacket in mylar cover. 212 pp. with 99 bw illus. and drawings and 140 color illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2004-2005 exhibitions of examples of architectural work rendered by Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi (b. 1937). The nine museums portrayed are: Shiseido Art Museum, Ken Domon Museum of Photography, Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo National Museum, The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Higashiyama Kaii Museum, and Kyoto National Museum. With both on-site views and architectural renderings and drawings, this book offers a stunning presentation of the architect's work. G (Ex-art library, with labels on dj; i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages; otherwise clean.) .