Kenzo Tange Quotes
Kenzo Tange Quotes
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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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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
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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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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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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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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.
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It was more than a quarter century ago that I started talking about the importance of communication and information in modern society.
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Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.
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Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
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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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Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
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