As New York prepares to welcome the Museum of Modern Art back to Manhattan, one striking architectural aspect of the museum’s new home should be noted: the lack of a striking architectural aspect. “[MoMA] won’t be housed in a titanium sculpture by Frank Gehry, an explosion of Daniel Libeskind shards or even one of Will Alsop’s boxes on stilts; instead it will be in a simple but elegant building designed by relatively unknown Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi… In the case of MoMA, modesty makes sense. The New York skyline long ago became a cacophony of styles and intentions; the last thing it needs is another voice screaming to be heard.”