Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Kenzo Tange

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. His career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, producing numerous distinctive buildings in Tokyo, other Japanese cities and cities around the world, as well as ambitious physical plans for Tokyo and its environs. Tange was also an influential patron of the Metabolist movement. He said: "It was, I believe, around 1959 or at the beginning of the sixties that I began to think about what I was later to call structuralism",, a reference to the architectural movement known as Dutch Structuralism.

Japanese - Architect | September 4, 1913 - March 22, 2005

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

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

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

Kenzo Tange

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Kenzo Tange

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

Kenzo Tange

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

Kenzo Tange

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

Kenzo Tange

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

Kenzo Tange

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Kenzo Tange

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.

Kenzo Tange

Top 18 Quotes & Sayings by Kenzo Tange

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