Obituary: Mamoru Kawaguchi (1932–2019)

Structural engineer for the Yoyogi Stadium, Tokyo Olympics Games 1964 and Emeritus Professor of Hosei University, Tokyo. Born Fukui City, Japan, 21 October 1932 and died Tokyo, 29 May 2019. Structural engineers, whose contribution is often indispensable to the realization of iconic buildings, are seldom honoured to the same degree as the architects with whom they collaborate. Mamoru Kawaguchi, Japanese structural engineer and Emeritus Professor at Hosei University, Tokyo, was one such.