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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. |
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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
I am often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
