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.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.