Kenzo Tange Quotations

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

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

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

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

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.

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

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

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

It was more than a quarter century ago that I started talking about the importance of communication and information in modern society.

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

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

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.

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.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.