Tadayasu SAKAI Art Critic Kiichi SUMIKAWA Sculptor Kan YASUDA Sculptor Fumihiko MAKI Architect Yoshio TANIGUCHI Architect Shoichi KAJIMA Director and Senior Advisor of Kajima Corporation

1937 Born in Tokyo 1960 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University 1964 Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 1964 to 72 Research at Kenzo Tange Studio, Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo Held successively such as Lecturer at Department of Architecture, UCLA, Visiting Critic at Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Lecturer at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Lecturer at Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo. 1979 - present President of Taniguchi and Associates 1990 - present Board member of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum Japan 1996 - present Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects 2003 to 2010 Visiting professor of Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music 2004 - present Emeritus board member of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 2008 - present International fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects Member of the Japan Art Academy Major projects include: Shiseido Art Museum Kanazawa Municipal Library Ken Domon Museum of Photography Higashiyama Kaii Gallery, Nagano Prefectural Art Museum Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Sea Life Park Toyota Municipal Museum of Art Tokyo National Museum, The Gallery of Horyuji Treasures Museum of Modern Art in New York Major awards include: Architectural Institute of Japan Award The Isoya Yoshida Memorial Prize Japan Art Academy Prize Mainichi Art Award The Togo Murano Memorial Prize Public Buildings Award Praemium Imperiale award