Technology Humanity Quotes by 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

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

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

— Kenzo Tange

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

— Kenzo Tange

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

— 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

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kenzo Tange

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

— 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

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