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]