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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."

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Donna Grant

"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

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Donna Grant

"I call architecture frozen music."

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Donna Grant

"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."

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Donna Grant

"All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls."

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Donna Grant

"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."

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Donna Grant

"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."

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Donna Grant

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

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Donna Grant

"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."

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Donna Grant

"In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

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Donna Grant

"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."

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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."

Architecture

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Kenzo Tange
"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."

Society

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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."

Architecture

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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."

Power

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

Creation

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Kenzo Tange
"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."

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

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

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