Structural designers who carved Japanese modern architecture

Abstract

Compared with architects, not many people can list-up the names and achievements of structural designers. However, behind every great architects there are always structural engineers who supported them. In response to a request from the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Architecture, the Japan Structural Designers Club has been researching materials left by talented structural designers collaborating with Hamada laboratory at Hosei University since 2017. In this paper, based on the results of the survey, the achievements of representative Japanese modern structural designers are overviewed and discussed.