Abstract
This study focuses on the principles of latent monumentality related to the concepts of tradition and creation in Tange's way of thinking, as they originally appear in the early writings that form the basis of his architectural discourse. The first part introduces the problematic of the epoch and the relation between modernism and monumentality; it presents the methodology used to analyze Tange's discourse and the past studies to which the author referred. The second part explores the original conception of the philosophical concepts of tradition and creation in "Michelangelo sho" (1939). In this part, Tange's discourse is compared to the discourse of Le Corbusier and contemporary western philosophers-Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche in particular-which had a strong influence on Tange's way of thinking. In the third part, the author interprets the architectural meaning of the concepts of tradition and creation in relation with Tange's discourse on Japanese monumentality, at the end of the fifties. It reveals that, after the analysis of Le Corbusier, the tradition of the Parthenon and its relation with western philosophy and aesthetics, Tange looked for a hint into tradition and creation at the origin of Japanese architecture.
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