Hideo sasaki biography books

Hideo Sasaki was internationally respected as a landscape architect, planner, teacher, and mentor. He instilled our firm with a spirit of critical thinking and open inquiry. He pioneered the concept of integrated design, insisting that we should use the whole depth of human knowledge to solve problems rather than stopping at our traditional silos.

Hideo’s ethos of curiosity and collaboration still guides us. Sasaki’s decades-long role as a convener of varied perspectives equips the firm to tackle problems that might otherwise seem insurmountable.

Hideo sasaki biography books in order

Committed to collaboration

In 1953 Hideo founded the firm that would evolve into Sasaki, and in the same year joined the faculty at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.

He was educated at the University of California, Berkeley and at the University of Illinois, as well as at Harvard. As chairman of Harvard’s Landscap