谷口吉生さん死去、８７歳　世界的建築家、ＭｏＭＡ新館など

　米ニューヨーク近代美術館（ＭｏＭＡ）の新館や東京都葛西臨海水族園などを手掛けた世界的な建築家、谷口吉生（たにぐち・よしお）さんが１６日午前５時１１分、肺炎のため死去した。８７歳だった。東京都出身。葬儀は近親者で行う。後日「メモリアルの会」を開く予定。
　慶応大工学部を卒業後、米ハーバード大大学院で建築を学んだ。建築家の丹下健三に師事し、１９７９年に谷口建築設計研究所を設立。資生堂アートハウス（静岡県掛川市）、土門拳記念館（山形県酒田市）、丸亀市猪熊弦一郎現代美術館（香川県丸亀市）、鈴木大拙館（金沢市）、ＧＩＮＺＡ　ＳＩＸ（東京）などを設計した。シンプルながら素材の質感を生かしたモダニズム建築で高い評価を受けた。
　２０１１年に旭日中綬章を受け、２１年には文化功労者に選ばれた。（2024/12/20-20:15）

Yoshio Taniguchi, the noted Japanese architect who designed a new building of New York's Museum of Modern Art and Tokyo Sea Life Park, died of pneumonia Monday morning, it was learned Friday. He was 87.
   A native of Tokyo, Taniguchi graduated from Japan's Keio University and studied architecture at the graduate school of Harvard University. He studied under leading Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and started his own office in 1979.
   Taniguchi is known for designing simple modernist buildings that embody the original textures of materials.
   His major works include Shiseido Art House in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, the Ken Domon Museum of Photography in Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture, the Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art in Kagawa Prefecture and the D.T. Suzuki Museum in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture.
   Taniguchi also designed Ginza Six, an office and shopping complex in Tokyo's upscale Ginza district.