Background
Tachu Naito was born on the 12th of June, 1886 in Yamanashi, Japan.
内藤 多仲
Tachu Naito was born on the 12th of June, 1886 in Yamanashi, Japan.
Tachu Naito attended the Old System Kofu Middle School (presently Yamanashi Prefectural Kofu First High School), he passed high school and then attended the Tokyo Imperial University (presently the University of Tokyo). He studied with Kino Toshikata and graduated in 1910.
Tachu Naito was appointed as an instructor at Waseda University and became a professor in 1913 and concurrently a member of the Engineering Institute. In 1916, he went to America as an international student where he devised his seismic theory of the earthquake-proof wall. Using the seismic structural theory that he devised, he engineered the Industrial Bank of Japan's main office which was designed by Setsu Watanabe. Three months after the building's completion in 1923, the Great Kantō earthquake happened. This structure withstood the damage and Naito included this fact in his lectures as the effectiveness of his earthquake-proof design theory had been proven. In 1938, he became the chairman of the Japan Welding Society.
Other than the Industrial Bank of Japan, he worked on the Kabuki-za and the Okuma auditorium. Naito designed many broadcasting towers as well, the Nagoya television Tower in 1954, the Tsutenkaku in 1956, the Sapporo television Tower and Beppu Tower in 1957, and the Tokyo Tower in 1958. He wrote books on architecture including Earthquake-Woof Constructions.
Tachu Naito was a member of the Japan Academy. In 1941 he was named the chair of the Architectural Institute of Japan and in 1954 became a member of the Science Council of Japan.