Yoshio Taniguchi, the architect of MoMAs 2004 redesign and expansion, has died at the age of 87. The New York Times reported the news,along with more details about his journey to the surprise 1997 commission win,following his death from pneumonia on December 16th.Taniguchi was born to a prominent architect father in Tokyo in 1937 and studied at the Harvard GSDbefore returning to Japan in 1964. Significant museum projects include the Ken Domon Museum of Photography and the Gallery of Horyuji Treasures at the Tokyo National Museum. His only other American work is the Asia Society Texas Center in Houston. Taniguchi was the secondIsamu Noguchi Award winner and dedicated the Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture in Kanazawa in 2019.