Sasaki (company)

Sasaki is an interdisciplinary design firm practicing Architecture, Interior Design, Planning and Urban Design, Space Planning, Landscape Architecture, Ecology, Civil Engineering, and Place Branding.[1] The firm is headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, but practices at an international scale, with a second office in Shanghai,[2] and clients and projects around the globe. Sasaki is known for a uniquely collaborative design process that yields integrated,[3] contextual designs.[4]

Sasaki
Founded1953
FounderHideo Sasaki
Headquarters
United States of America 
Area served
International
Services
  • Architecture
  • Interior Design
  • Planning and Urban Design
  • Space Planning
  • Landscape Architecture
  • Ecology
  • Civil Engineering
  • Place Branding
Websitehttp://www.sasaki.com/

History

Sasaki was founded in 1953 by acclaimed landscape architect, Hideo Sasaki while he served as a professor and landscape architecture chair at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[5] Sasaki was founded upon collaborative, interdisciplinary design, unprecedented in design practice at the time,[6] and an emphasis on the integration of land, buildings, people, and their contexts.[7]

With these values, and under the guidance of Hideo, Sasaki became a leader in complex environmental design. Through the mid to late 1900s, Sasaki designed plazas (including Copley Square),[8][9] corporate parks, college campuses, and master plans, among other projects, all while building a reputation for understanding each site's demographics and context.[5]

The firm includes a team of in house designers, software developers, and data analysts who support the practice.[10] Today, Sasaki has over 300 employees across its diverse practice areas and between its two offices.[11] The firm engages in a wide variety of project types, across its many disciplines.

Milestones

In 2000, in honor of the passing of the firm's founder, the family of Hideo Sasaki together with Sasaki and other financial supporters, established the Sasaki Foundation.[12] The foundation, which is a separate entity from Sasaki, gives yearly grants, supporting community-led research at Sasaki.[13] In 2012, Sasaki opened an office in Shanghai to support the firm's work in China and the larger Asia Pacific region.[2]

In 2018, Sasaki opened the Incubator, a coworking space designed by and located within the Sasaki campus, which houses the Sasaki Foundation as curator of programming.[14] The 5,000 square-foot space is home to several like-minded non-profits, organizations, and individuals, who work with Sasaki and the Sasaki Foundation towards crafting innovative solutions.[15]

Awards and recognition

Sasaki projects, spanning disciplines, geographies, and scales, have been recognized recurrently by local, regional, national, and international design awards. In 2007, Sasaki was honored as the American Society of Landscape Architects firm of the year.[16] In 2012, Sasaki won the American Planning Association firm of the year award.[17]

Additionally, Sasaki has earned numerous consecutive Pierre L'Enfant International Planning awards from the American Planning Association.[18][19][20][21] In 2017, two of the five annual finalists for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence were Sasaki projects: the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building (Boston, MA)[22] and the Chicago Riverwalk both were recognized as silver medalists.[23] Sasaki has been named a top 50 firm by Architect Magazine numerous times.[24][25]

Sasaki has received significant recognition from organizations such as the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA), Boston Society of Architects (BSA), American Planning Association (APA), American Institute of Architecture (AIA), Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), Urban Land Initiative (ULI),[26] Dezeen,[27] and Fast Company, among others.

Research

Notable Sasaki-sponsored research projects include Sea-Change Boston (2016 ASLA Honor Award),[28] Shifting Gears: An Urbanist's take on autonomous vehicles (2019 Fast Company honorable mention),[29] Understanding Homelessness,[30] and Where Design Meets Play.[31]

Select projects

Sasaki has a large portfolio of work, which includes:

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