Kenzo Tange Quotes

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

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  Heart, Technology, Creative

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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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  Demand, Architecture, Emotion

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• Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

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  Vitality, Architect, Inconsistency

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

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  Space, Appearance, Logical

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• 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.

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  Identity, Mobility, World

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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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  Creative, Tradition, Creation

  Kenzō Tange (1970). “Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design”

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

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  Long, Design, Arbitrary

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• 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.

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  Technology, Reality, Thinking

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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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  Powerful, Heart, Mean

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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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  Design, Today, Ordinary

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

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  Cities, Architecture, Consideration

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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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  Special, Development, Urban

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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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  Thinking, Design, Matter

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

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  Design, Magazines, Saws

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