Hideo sasaki biography sample

American landscape architect

Hideo Sasaki (25 November 1919 – 30 August 2000) was a Japanese Americanlandscape architect.

Biography

Hideo Sasaki was born in Reedley, California, on 25 November 1919.

Hideo sasaki biography sample pdf

He grew up working on his family's California truck farm, and harvesting crops on Arizona farms. He began his college studies at the University of California, Berkeley during the time of World War II. Owing to his Japanese descent, he was forced into the Poston internment camp in Arizona after the signing of Executive Order 9066.^[1] He was able to leave the camp upon volunteering to work as a farm hand in Sterling, Colorado.

Soon after the war, he moved to Denver, Colorado where he met his wife, Kisa, a graduate of the University of Colorado. Sasaki then moved to the University of Illinois where he received Bachelor of Fine Arts and Landscape Architecture in 1946.

During his time at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Sasaki worked