Quotes by 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 kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society.
• Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
• 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.
• Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.
• I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter.
• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
• Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.