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
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.
Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.
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.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.