Kenzo Tange Quotes

"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself."
- Kenzo Tange
(Related: Creation, Tradition)

"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
(Related: Architecture, Heart)

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

"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
- Kenzo Tange
(Related: Thinking)

"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
- Kenzo Tange
(Related: Nature)

"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
(Related: Power, Future, Reform, Today)

"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
(Related: Architecture, Development, Duty, Mission, Planning)

"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
- Kenzo Tange
(Related: Architecture, Society, Cities, Importance)