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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

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Kenzo Tange
Age: 91 †
Born: 1913
Born: September 4
Died: 2005
Died: March 22
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