Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

- 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…

- Kenzo Tange

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 re…

- 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 pla…

- Kenzo Tange

We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and change, ident…

- Kenzo Tange

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

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

- Kenzo Tange

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

- Kenzo Tange

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