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Hideo founded the firm that would evolve into Sasaki Associates in 1953, the same year he joined the faculty at Harvard. He had studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Illinois, as well as Harvard. From 1958 - 1968, as chairman of Harvard's Landscape Architecture Department, he helped to revolutionize the study of landscape architecture by tying it to the larger issues of planning and by breaking down the traditional barriers between practice and teaching. He induced busy practitioners in a variety of disciplines to teach briefly in his department, enriching the curriculum and connecting it to the real world. He brought promising students into his firm, and they put his practical, interdisciplinary approach into action, making his firm unique.
Sasaki Associates' planning and urban design practice creates design solutions that are a synthesis of rigorous analysis, economic realism, environmental responsibility, and cultural awareness. Our commitment to both the real and the imagined, the achievable and the visionary, distinguishes our work. Working collaboratively in focused interdisciplinary teams — on the regional, community, urban district, campus, and site-specific levels — we define and develop ideas, concepts, and strategies that address the great diversity of planning and urban design challenges facing our clients.
