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Kenzo Tange Quotes

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Architect Quotes
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Date of Birth:
September 4, 1913
Date of Death:
March 22, 2005
Nationality:
Japanese
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Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Kenzo Tange

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
Kenzo Tange

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Kenzo Tange

In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.
Kenzo Tange

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.
Kenzo Tange

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Kenzo Tange

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
Kenzo Tange

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
Kenzo Tange


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