Kenzo Tange Quotes

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

  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

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

  Kenzo Tange

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

  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

• 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

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

  Kenzo Tange

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Design

Kenzo Tange (9)

Birth:	4th September, 1913
Death:	22nd March, 2005
Nationality:	Japanese
Profession:	Architect

Related Authors

• Isamu Noguchi
• Kenzo Tange
• Jacobus Oud
• William of Wykeham
• Herbert Baker
• Louis Sullivan
• Thom Mayne
• Robert Mallet-Stevens
• Minoru Yamasaki
• Helmut Jahn

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 21st December

Births

• 1795 - Leopold Von Ranke
• 1935 - Phil Donahue
• 1982 - Philip Humber
• 1892 - Rebecca West
• 1948 - Samuel L. Jackson

Deaths

• 1992 - Stella Adler
• 1889 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot
• 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky
• 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger
• 2001 - David Swift