Kenzo Tange Professions : Architect Born : September 4, 1913 Died : March 22, 2005 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by 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 technology creative heart Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. Kenzo Tange inconsistency vitality architect 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 demand architecture emotion 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 mobility identity world 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 technology reality thinking 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 powerful heart mean Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself. Kenzo Tange creation tradition creative Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical Kenzo Tange logical space appearance Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Kenzo Tange consideration architecture cities 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 design ordinary today Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange arbitrary design long 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 urban development special I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s. Kenzo Tange magazines saws design I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter Kenzo Tange design matter thinking 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 buildings opinion society way Similar Authors Ben van Berkel architect Bruno Zevi architect Bruno Freschi architect Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin architect Arthur Erickson architect Arne Jacobsen architect All Authors
