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Architecture Quotes by Kenzo Tange
- Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
- I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
- Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
- Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
- I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning
- 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…
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