21 Quotes by Kenzo Tange

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical

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.

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.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.

Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical.

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.