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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.

4, 60 Conversation: Embracing Diverse Rationalities and Values
Masato Araya × Yoshiharu Kanebako

12 Satoshi Okamura
Aburatsu Horikawa Canal Yumemi Bridge
The Gymnasium in Shizuoka Prefecture Kusanagi Sports Complex
 
22 Yasutaka Konishi
Joshu Tomioka Station
Kanagawa Institute of Technology KAIT Workshop

32 Shuji Tada
Kogakuin University Archery Ground Boxing Ring
Nagoya-C-Office Building

42 Jun Sato 
Guideline to Include Structural Factors
in Developing Morphogenesis Operations of Architecture

52 Yasushi Moribe
Teshima Yokoo House

56 Kenji Nawa
Glass House for Diver

70 Mitsuhiro Kanada
Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos
Taichung Metoropolitan Opera House

80 Eisuke Mitsuda
tomarigi
Nakagawa Office
 
90 Hirofumi Ohno
Ring Around a Tree
Belfly in Ishinomaki
 
100 Daisuke Hasegawa
Momigara Park
EPSP
WEP SHIMOKITAZAWA
 
110 Akira Suzuki
ENPARK
 
114 Takashi Manda
Showroom H

118 Genealogy
120 Profile