Asa Hanamoto, FASLA
Mr. Hanamoto is a graduate from the University of California’s College of Environmental Design and was a Founding Partner at the office of Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey, a pioneering firm in the modern landscape architectural movement. At a time when Environmental Impact Reports and other similar reports were not yet invented, Mr. Hanamoto led both the firm and the profession in outstanding and innovative land use studies and environmental assessments. With a distinguished career spanning more than 40 years, Mr. Hanamoto’s work includes major land and community planning, such as the Willamette River Greenway Study, park and recreational design, as well as campus and public realm oriented projects throughout the United States and abroad. He served on the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board of the American Society of Landscape Architects; the State of California, Board of Landscape Architects oral examination panel; and as a Subject Matter Expert to the Council of Landscape Architectural Licensing. He also has been a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley, the National University of Mexico, the University of Illinois, and Mississippi State University, and was appointed to the Roster of Visiting Evaluators (ROVE) for schools of Landscape Architecture.
Santa Clara Central Park, 2008.
