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.

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Generations of designers, architects, and planners have found a home within Sasaki to collaborate and grow

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Hideo Sasaki 是一位享誉国际的景观建筑师、规划师、教师和导师。他从公司创始初便为其注入了批判性思维和开放求知的精神。他是跨学科规划和设计的先行者，强调每个项目对于本土文化、历史、地理、环境、社会和经济的尊重——这样前瞻性的理念在现今尤其重要。

1953年，Hideo Sasaki 先生成立了Sasaki 事务所，并于同年开始于哈佛大学任教。他先后毕业于加州大学伯克利分校、伊利诺伊大学以及哈佛大学，并于 1958 到 1968 年，担任哈佛大学景观建筑系系主任。

任职期间，Hideo Sasaki 先生促进了景观建筑学教育的改革，将其与更大尺度规划问题相统筹，并打破了传统实践与教学之间的障碍。他邀请各学科经验丰富的实践者到学院客座授课，拓展教学内容并与现实问题紧密联系，同时聘请优秀的学生加入公司，将跨学科理念付诸实践。

"Buildings are elements of the land...same as plants or anything else."

-Hideo Sasaki

Humanizing campuses and civic commons

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 campus master plans of their kind. The principles of collaboration and inclusivity employed in our early campus designs are still central to our practice, and have increasingly become the values of higher education institutions today.

Throughout the mid-century, emphasis shifted from the designer to the user, and regard grew for the public realm. Sasaki turned its attention to civic spaces–with a focus on urban sanctuaries–and integrated all of our disciplinary expertise. Our parks and plazas, such as the iconic vest pocket park, Greenacre Park, still invite activity and provide respite to the public.

Environmental sensitivity

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 environment as its central amenity, protecting the site against erosion and preserving the barrier island’s pines. Since then, Sasaki has taken on projects as varied as the restoration of a landfill in Concord, MA into forested habitat; and the master plan of Alabama’s Gulf State Park, focused on preserving and educating the public about the park’s dunes.

Building healthy cities

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 help them plan for existential issues and make sure the solutions reflect local values. We design tools that help our clients capture community input and plan for the future, such as the Carbon Conscience Tool and Office Shift Pro. We continue to be deeply invested in the future of cities.

Ever adapting

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 carbon, rapid urbanization, repositioning underused assets, and designing the next generation of learning spaces–demand an integrated approach to problem solving.

We honor the memory of Hideo Sasaki and continually strive to expand upon the collaborative approach that is his legacy. Our innovative approach, boundless curiosity, and passion live in each of our projects and propel us into the future.