抄録
Reinforced concrete had just begun to be used in Tokyo municipal buildings when the Kanto Earthquake occurred. To reconstruct its buildings, Tokyo Municipal Office decided to introduce reinforced concrete widely. As a result, the fifteen years following the earthquake were the period of construction of a large number of reinforced concrete buildings. To carry out such a bug project, the members of the Architectural Section of Tokyo Municipal Office had been divided into branches specializing in specific architecture during that period. As is stated above, the time when the Kanto Earthquake occurred had great significance itself, and the reconstruction caused great changes in the system and the administration of the Architectural Section of Tokyo Municipal Office.
