A Quote by Kenzo Tange

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

Kenzo Tange

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Architecture Cities Great Importance Society Technological

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Kenzo Tange
Japanese - Architect
September 4, 1913 - March 22, 2005

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

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Richard Moe

Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.

Leo Szilard

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Paul Davies

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Witold Rybczynski

Against this backdrop of technological change and heightened expectations, it is worth remembering our broad public policy objectives, which are driven by the fundamental importance of the payments system in our society.

Jerome Powell

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

Doris Janzen Longacre

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Paul Goldberger

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Pope Paul VI

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Paul Virilio

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John F. Kennedy

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Charles Landry

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