Firm Profile

Sasaki Associates

Sasaki Associates
Sasaki Associates
Watertown, MA; San Francisco, CA
And so over the past five decades we've been actively engaged in virtually every aspect of the built environment – Planning and Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design, Civil Engineering and Graphic Design. Our interdisciplinary structure adds real client value by purposeful cross-pollination of skills and collaboration among our range of experts. The result is careful and rigorous analysis and synthesis of economic reality, environmental sustainability, cultural awareness and aesthetic judgment. With the BAC we share a passion for the sharing of existing design skills and the constant learning of new ones. - Dennis Pieprz President, Sasaki Associates

For more than 50 years, Sasaki Associates has combined creativity and problem solving to provide clients with exceptional planning and design services.  This approach grew out of founder Hideo Sasaki’s belief that the most successful planning and design is accomplished by a team of experienced professionals from an array of design disciplines. Informing the work of the firm is his opinion that “What usually aids in the intelligent flowering of the design is the success of the collaborative effort of all, including designers, engineers, and managers. There should be no confusion over provinces, assignments, or competencies. Contribution is the only value.” Hideo Sasaki pioneered the interdisciplinary firm, instilled with a spirit of critical thinking and open inquiry. His insistence that every project be put into a cultural, historical, geographical, environmental, social and economic context is even more pertinent today.

The Sasaki group comprises multicultural, multilingual professionals from twenty-eight countries with a wide variety of skills and viewpoints. Sustainable experts work within every discipline offered by the firm. Since, inception in 1953, ecological issues have been an inherent consideration, and exist as a Sasaki Associates core value.

Recent Sasaki awards include: 601 Congress Street Green Roof, Boston MA (Green Roof Award of Excellence, Intensive Commercial Category Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, 2006); 2008 Beijing Olympics, Olympic Green, Beijing China (Business Week/Architectural Record China Awards Green Projects Category, 2006 and Honor Award Boston Society of Landscape Architects, 2006); Caohoi North Shore Conceptual Master Plan; Kumming, Yunnan, China (Business Week/Architectural Record China Awards Planning Category, 2006)

Sasaki Associates and the Boston Architectural College have recently announced the 2006 -2007 Hideo Sasaki Distinguished Visiting Critic at the Boston Architectural Center to provide advance design students with an opportunity to work directly with accomplished designers who foster collaboration and integration across the design disciplines.  During the Spring Semester, the Distinguished Visiting Critic teaches a design course for advanced architecture, interior design and/or landscape architecture students, is highlighted through exhibition and speaking opportunities, and participates in important school-wide review sessions and community gatherings that reach out to the larger design community.