TachÅ« NaitÅ
Tachu Naito (Japanese内藤 多 仲, born June 12, 1886 in Sakaki, Nakakoma County (now Minami -Alps ), Yamanashi Prefecture, † August 25 1970 in the prefecture of Tokyo ) was a Japanese architect, engineer and professor at the Waseda University. He is considered the founder of the earthquake-proof construction and built many television towers. His most famous building is the Tokyo Tower.
Biography
Naitō Tachu visited the Kofu Middle School, graduated from the secondary school and then went to the Imperial University of Tokyo known today as the University of Tokyo. Initially he studied shipbuilding, he changed due to the crisis in shipbuilding, which was triggered by the Russo- Japanese War, and architecture. He studied cinema at Toshikata and received his degree in 1910. 1913 was the professor at Waseda University.
During a stay abroad in the United States in 1916 Naitō developed his theory of earthquake-proof wall. The theory he continued to the construction of the headquarters of the Industrial Bank of Japan. Three months after completion of the building survived the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923 and thus illustrated the effectiveness of the idea Naitō Tachūs. In addition, he designed the theater building Kabuki -za in Tokyo and the Okuma Auditorium. However, he received special recognition for his designs of TV towers in Japan. In 1954, the Nagoya TV Tower, 1956, the television tower Tsutenkaku, 1957, the Sapporo TV Tower and Beppu Tower and 1958, the Tokyo Tower was built.
Naitō Tachu has held many positions during his career and won a number of awards. In 1938 he was appointed Chairman of the welder Academy and in 1941 he became chairman of the Academy of Architecture. In 1954, he was also a member of the Science Council of Japan and 1960, the Japan Academy of Sciences. In 1962, Naito Tachu was declared a person with special cultural merits and in 1964 awarded him the Order one of the Rising Sun second class. On August 25, 1970, he died at the age of 84 in the morning in Tokyo First National Hospital (now the International Medical Center of Japan ). His funeral urn was buried in the family grave of the cemetery Tamareien.
Publications and Writings (selection )
- Building Construction After the Great Earthquake, 1924.
- Earthquake -proof Construction, 1927, Stanford University.
- Discussions on Construction of Earthquake Proof Frame Buildings, 1929
- Along with Wilbur M. Wilson (ed.) Henry Dievendorf Dewell: Earthquake Resisting Construction, 1930, American Society of Civil Engineers.
- Note on Earthquake Resistant Construction, 1939 Sanshusha Press.