Sasaki Rising Above the Law of Unintended Consequences
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| In the Watertown parking lot of Sasaki Assoc., company employees evaluate materials to alleviate storm water runoff and the heat-island effect – the rise in temperature that happens when the summer sun soaks into black-asphalt paving. The firm has made several recent developments in the area of environmentally friendly “green practice.” |
By Jeffrey Stein
Hideo Sasaki was a landscape architect and teacher who founded Sasaki Assoc. in 1953. He said then: “For many modernists, nature was something to be licked. Our motive is [for] nature to work together with our economy.”
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