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  • Hideo Sasaki (25 November 1919 – 30 August 2000) was a Japanese American landscape architect.
  • Hideo Sasaki was born in Reedley, California, on November 25, 1919.

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    Hideo Sasaki

    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 bygd Walter Gropius, in 1948. He worked briefly for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and then returned to teach at Harvard, where he was chairman of the department for ten years. A founder of Sasaki, Walker and Associates, he led a firm that emerged into the forefront of complex environmental design, focusing on the interaction of land, buildings, and the greater environment. Both in his academic career and in private practice, Sasaki valued cross-disciplinary collaboration, promoting a comprehensive and cooperative approach to planning and design. Significant public landscapes include Greenacre Park (New York City), Constitution Plaza (Hartford, Connecticut), University of Colorado at Boulder, Sea Pines Plantation (Hilton Head Island, South Car

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    Hideo Sasaki was born in Reedley, California, on November 25, 1919. A farmer's son, he graduated from Reedley Junior College in 1939. He studied business administration with a minor in art at the University of California, Los Angeles; but after hearing about the field of city planning, Sasaki transferred to U.C. Berkeley where planning was taught in the landscape architecture department.

    Sasaki's studies in California ended abruptly with the outbreak of World War II. After a brief time in an internment camp for Japanese Americans, he worked in the sugar beet fields of Colorado, and later in a photographer’s darkroom in Chicago. He received a B.F.A. in landscape architecture in 1946 from the University of Illinois, where he studied under Stanley White and Karl B. Lohmann, and in 1948 completed his M.L.A. at Harvard University.

    At Harvard's Graduate School of Design (GSD) while Walter Gropius was dean, Sasaki came into contact with Bauhaus ideals of teamwork and mingled freely with

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    HIDEO SASAKI

  • 1. Amity School of Architecture & Planning AMITY UNIVERSITY BAR 806 – LANDSCAPE DESIGN SUBMTTED TO- SUBMITTED BY- Ar. Kinzalk Singh Chauhan Sushma, Vineeta ASST. PROF ASAP B.ARCH 4th Year 8th Sem.

  • 2. Amity School of Architecture & Planning HEDIO SASAKI A Landscape Architect And Educator Who Designed Some Of The Country's Best-known Industrial Parks, Urban Spaces And Campuses

  • 3. Amity School of Architecture & Planning BACKGROUND • Born November 1919 • Died August 2000 • Attended U.C Berkeley until WWII • During WWII was imprisoned in Interment camp • Received a B.F.A in 1946 from University of Illinois • Received a M.L.A in 1948 from Harvard University • Open Sasaski Associates in 1953

  • 4. Amity School of Architecture & Planning BIOGRAPHY • Hideo Sasaki was born in Reedley, California, on 25 November 1919. He grew up working on his family's California truck farm, and harvesting crops on Arizona farms. • He began his college studies
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