Takeo Uesugi

Takeo Uesugi

Takeo Uesugi (born in 1940 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese-American landscape architect who designed acclaimed Japanese garden installations. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and Kyoto University.

Works

Uesugi's prominent works include:

* The James Irvine Garden at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (Los Angeles, California)
* The Gardens of Belief at the City of Hope National Medical Center
* The Japan Pavilion at the Expo '70, Suita, Osaka
* The Hotel Nikko (now Grand Hyatt Hotel) in Atlanta, Georgia
* The Japanese Friendship Garden Expansion at Balboa Park
* The Washington Center in Washington D.C.
* The George and Sakaye Aratani Japanese Garden on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona

Honors

Uesugi's honors include the National Landscape Award presented by First Lady Nancy Reagan in a 1981 White House ceremony that recognized his design of the James Irvine Garden. Today, this garden is widely regarded as one of the finest public spaces in Los Angeles.

Uesugi is currently the president of his own landscape design firm and a professor emeritus in landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona.

External links

* [http://www.jaccc.org/outdoor.htm#garden JACCC James Irvine Garden]
* [http://www.publicartinla.com/Downtown/Little_Tokyo/seriyu.html USC Public Art in LA Summary of Irvine Garden]
* [http://polycentric.csupomona.edu/news.asp?id=300 Cal Poly campus newsletter describing Aratani Japanese Garden]
* [http://www.niwa.org/display/Approach.asp?parentID=136 Japanese Friendship Garden Future Plans]
* [http://www.tuainc.com/ Takeo Uesugi & Associates home page]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем решить контрольную работу

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Takeo — Infobox Given Name Revised name = Takeo imagesize= caption= Takeo Fukuda, the 67th Prime Minister of Japan pronunciation= Tá ké ó gender = Male meaning = It can have many different meanings depending on the kanji used. region = origin = Japanese… …   Wikipedia

  • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona — This article is about the university in Pomona, California. For the university in San Luis Obispo, California, see California Polytechnic State University. For the liberal arts college in Claremont, California, see Pomona College. California… …   Wikipedia

  • Order of the Sacred Treasure — 瑞宝章 Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure Awarded by the Emperor of Japan Type …   Wikipedia

  • Idol Defense Force Hummingbird — Infobox animanga/Header name = Idol Defense Force Hummingbird caption = ja name = アイドル防衛隊ハミングバード ja name trans = Aidoru Bōeitai Hamingubādo genre = Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Military, MusicInfobox animanga/OVA title = director = Kiyoshi… …   Wikipedia

  • japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …   Universalium

  • Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …   Universalium

  • Midway order of battle — This is the order of battle for the World War II Battle of Midway. Contents 1 Overview 2 Japanese Combined Fleet 2.1 First Fleet 2.2 Second Fleet (Midway Invasion …   Wikipedia

  • Furin Kazan — Réalisation Hiroshi Inagaki Acteurs principaux Toshirō Mifune Yoshiko Sakuma Kinnosuke Nakamura Scénario Shinobu Hashimoto Takeo Kunihiro Yasushi Inoue (histoire) Musique Masaru Sato Durée 165 min …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Furin kazan — Données clés Réalisation Hiroshi Inagaki Scénario Shinobu Hashimoto Takeo Kunihiro Yasushi Inoue (histoire) Acteurs principaux Toshirō Mifune Yoshiko Sakuma Kinnosuke Nakamura Pays d’origine …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Fuurin kazan — Furin kazan Furin kazan Réalisation Hiroshi Inagaki Acteurs principaux Toshirō Mifune Yoshiko Sakuma Kinnosuke Nakamura Scénario Shinobu Hashimoto Takeo Kunihiro Yasushi Inoue (histoire) Musique Masaru Sato Durée 165 min …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”