Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. – 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
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
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. – Kenzo Tange
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin