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Hideo Sasaki. Pioneer Information. Born in Reedley, California, Sasaki studied landscape architecture at the University of Illinois, where he counted Stanley White amongst his influential teachers, and graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, then led by Walter Gropius, in 1948.
- Humanizing Campuses and Civic Commons
- Environmental Sensitivity
- Building Healthy Cities
- Ever Adapting
Investment in higher education soared after WWII, and U.S. campuses grew and multiplied. Social movements and cultural studies programs swept across college campuses. Sasaki’s campus work elevated the design quality and integration between campus life and learning, helping universities accommodate rapid expansion and contributing to the first major...
In the ‘60s and ‘70s, landscape architecture found a sense of purpose in rising social and environmental issues. Sasaki designed with sensitivity to the environmental implications of our projects long before sustainability was a buzzword. For instance, the 1964 master plan for the Sea Pines residential and resort community treated the natural envir...
Through the decades, Sasaki has played a significant role in revitalizing urban waterfronts and activating urban cores for the equity and economic wellbeing of communities, adding valuable public amenities, environmental resilience, and creative programming. Sasaki has partnered with cities–as in the Boston Heat Plan and Climate Ready Boston–to hel...
Over the last seven decades, Sasaki has made an indelible mark on the built environment, and we continue to evolve. Our professionals are advancing the fields of architecture, interior design, planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and civil engineering. Many of the pressing topics of our time–such as environmental stewardship and reducing...
Hideo Sasaki (25 November 1919 – 30 August 2000) was a Japanese American landscape architect.
Hideo Sasai is known as an Producer and Executive Producer. Some of their work includes Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo, The Beasts' Carnival, The Rocking Horsemen, Sweet Revenge, The Izu Dancer, Love in the Mud, The Visitor in the Eye, and The Surf.
Hideo Sasai is known for Izu no odoriko (1974), Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71 (1971) and The Visitor in the Eye (1977).
- Producer, Production Manager, Writer
- Hideo Sasai
Oct 22, 2019 · Hideo Sasaki was an early pioneer of collaborative, cross-disciplinary design practice in the 1950s, which informed the way today’s broader design industry thinks about how a plan, site, and building all intersect to create a cohesive built design.
Hideo deliberately assumed the role of a collaborator rather than a domineering master designer—a partner in the reimagining of space. In the words of one of his close collaborators, he had “little patience for unilateral thinking,” instead always striving to blend expertise across disciplines.
