Kenzo Tange quotes
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“I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.”
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“In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.”
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“I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter”
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“Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical”
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“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”
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“I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning”
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“Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.”
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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.”
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“I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.”
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“Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.”
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“Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.”
-- Kenzo TangeSource : Kenzō Tange (1970). “Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design”
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“We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.”
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“Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.”
-- Kenzo Tange
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