Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange
Kenzō Tangewas a Japanese architect, and winner of the 1987 Pritzker Prize for architecture. He was one of the most significant architects of the 20th century, combining traditional Japanese styles with modernism, and designed major buildings on five continents. Tange was also an influential patron of the Metabolist movement. He said: "It was, I believe, around 1959 or at the beginning of the sixties that I began to think about what I was later to call structuralism",, a reference to...
NationalityJapanese
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth4 September 1913
CountryJapan
Kenzo Tange quotes about
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.
I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter
Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
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 need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart
In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.
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.