Takeo Uesugi

Takeo Uesugi (上杉武夫, Uesugi Takeo, born 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,^[1] and Kyoto University.

Works

Uesugi's prominent works include:^[2]

The James Irvine Garden at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (Los Angeles, California)
The Huntington Japanese Garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California^[3]
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.^[4] Today, this garden is widely regarded as one of the finest public spaces in Los Angeles. In 2010, he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, from the Government of Japan to honor his work fostering the development of Japanese gardens throughout the world. As such, he joins an elite group of recipients including fellow Japanese American landscape architect and designer Isamu Noguchi.

Uesugi is currently the president of his own landscape design firm and a professor emeritus in landscape architecture at Cal Poly Pomona's College of Environmental Design where he helped establish an exchange program with Kyushu University.^[5]

Takeo Uesugi

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