Background
Akira Tsuruta was born in 1904 in Tokyo, Japan.
田明 鶴田
Akira Tsuruta was born in 1904 in Tokyo, Japan.
Akira Tsuruta graduated from Waseda University in 1930, later he was granted a state scholarship by the Ministry of Education for the study of architecture and welding engineering. He was conferred a doctorate for his thesis on the intensity of gas welding and its effects on earthquake-proof walls.
After graduation Akira Tsuruta fremained at the university as assistant professor, later when he got his doctorate degree Akira Tsuruta was promoted to a professor in 1945. He was a member of Japan Architects' Society and Welding Engineering Society.
Akira Tsuruta also drew the blue-prints for the altars at St. Lukes International Hospital and Hakone Hotel. Among his works are "Welding of Buildings" and another which was jointly written titled "Calculation of Building Construation."