Our laboratory is engaged in various activities to address the needs of society by researching and developing technologies to design architectural structures. Students first investigate structural engineers in Japan and abroad who were active in the modern age and played important roles in the history of architectural structure development. Doing so will help them examine what social roles architectural structures should play. At the same time, we will explore which direction structural design technologies should advance in the future by surveying and preserving traditional architectures and developing new structural systems.