Hideo Sasaki was a prominent landscape architect born in 1919 who helped modernize the field. He created practical, environmentally-focused designs like Greenacre Park in New York, a small urban park featuring multi-level seating and plantings integrated with water displays. Sasaki also designed the Sasaki Gardens at Washington Square Village in 1959, an innovative roof-top green space situated above a parking garage featuring discrete spaces like fountains and trellised seating areas. Sasaki received degrees from the University of Illinois and Harvard and opened his own firm, Sasaki Associates, in 1953 to design numerous parks and corporate campuses emphasizing harmonizing buildings with their natural surroundings.

1. HEDIO SASAKI
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

2. BACKGROUND
• Born November 1919
• Died August 2000
• Received a B.F.A in 1946 from University of Illinois
• Received a M.L.A in 1948 from Harvard University
• Open Sasaski Associates in 1953

3. INTRODUCTION
• Sasaki helped to modernize the concepts of Landscape Architecture
• He created a practical approach to designing a landscape.
• One aspect that Sasaki pays particular attention to is the environmental aspect of
the land. They have taken part in creating several "green designs." These designs
are created to enhance or maintain the health of the environment

4. GREENACRE PARK
• Location - New York, NY
• Size -6,000 sqaure feet
• Sasaki provided architecture and
landscape architecture for the park,
which measures 60 feet by 120 feet
and features multi-level sitting areas
integrated with plantings and water
displays.
• Honey locust trees allow sunlight to
penetrate into the area and, at the
same time, create a protective canopy
to screen out adjacent buildings. The
entire length of one wall is a relief
sculpture.
• Water cascades over the granite face,
producing a strong visual focus as well
as a sound-screen against traffic noise
outside.

5. • The lower-level sitting area at
the base of the water display
provides visitors a more
immediate sense of contact
with the water. Along the
adjacent wall, a raised terrace
allows an overview of the
whole park and an elevated
view of the water display.
• This terrace is roofed with a
trellis and acrylic domes, and is
equipped with lighting and
radiant heating for evening
and cold weather use
• The landscape materials provide a
soft contrast to the granite, brick,
and steel
• Seasonal flowers fill urns which are
placed informally about the park,
and Boston ivy on the brick walls
turns a brilliant red color in early
fall.

9. WASHINGTON SQUARE VILLAGE (SASAKI
GARDENS)
• It was completed in 1959,
by modernist landscape
architect Sassaki
• The WSV complex of 1,292
apartments , two parallel
tower slabs of two
buildings each, enclosing a
park over a 650-car
underground garage was
opened in 1958.

10. • The interior of the Sasaki Garden
is designed into discrete spaces:
the fountain, the trellised seating
areas, the grove of raised planters
• the crab apple tree bouquet with
concrete planters that form
benches.
• The use of materials and structural
design of the garden display the
influence of modernist
architecture of the time.
• At the time of its construction, the
garden was also an innovation in
roof-top green spaces as it sits
four feet above ground level on
top of a 670- car parking garage.

13. Reference
https://tclf.org/pioneer/hideo-sasaki
https://www.sasaki.com/voices/celebrating-hideo-sasakis-life-and-work/
https://www.sasaki.com/projects/greenacre-park/
https://www.sasaki.com/projects/john-deere-and-company-corporate-headquarters/
https://www.sasaki.com/projects/john-deere-and-company-corporate-headquarters/

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