JA 95 Idea Of Emerging Structural Designers

As a profession, structural engineering in Japan dates from the first part of the 20th century. Following the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, Japan’s new Urban Building Law (1920) was revised to require earthquake safety calculations; the profession of structural engineer was born. Collaborations between architects and structural engineers in Japan is an even more recent phenomenon dating from the 1960s. This issue examines how it has translated into the nation’s contemporary building practices by looking at twelve exemplary practitioners and their recent projects. Also included is a conversation with Masato Araya and Yoshiharu Kanebako.

• Conversation: Embracing Diverse Rationalities and Values, Masato Araya×Yoshiharu Kanebako
• Satoshi Okamura, Aburatsu Horikawa Canal Yumemi Bridge The Gymnasium in Shizuoka Prefecture Kusanagi Sports Complex
• Yasutaka Konishi, Joshu Tomioka Station, Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop
• Shuji Tada, Kogakuin University Archery Ground Boxing Ring, Nagoya-C-Office Building
• Jun Sato, Guideline to Include Structural Factors in Developing Morphogenesis Operations of Architecture
• Yasushi Moribe, Teshima Yokoo House
• Kenji Nawa, Glass House for Diver
• Mitsuhiro Kanada, Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos Taichung Metoropolitan Opera House
• Eisuke Mitsuda, tomarigi, Nakagawa Office
• Hirofumi Ohno, Ring Around a Tree, Belfly in Ishinomaki
• Daisuke Hasegawa, Momigara Park, EPSP, WEP SHIMOKITAZAWA
• Akira Suzuki, ENPARK
• Takashi Manda, Showroom H
• Genealogy,  Profile