Sasaki

About Sasaki

Sasaki is an interdisciplinary design firm founded in 1953 and headquartered in Boston, with additional studios in Denver, New York, Los Angeles and Shanghai. More than 300 people from some 30 countries, speaking over 32 languages, work under a single practice model that has been interdisciplinary since day one. The firm's tagline - better design, together - captures a belief that stronger outcomes come from collective work rather than a single authorial vision.

Integrated Services

Few practices carry this range of disciplines in-house, which allows a masterplan, its landscape, its buildings and its infrastructure to be developed by one coordinated team.

• Architecture - academic, civic, cultural and commercial buildings
• Interior design - learning environments, workplace and public interiors
• Planning and urban design - campus frameworks, district plans and city-scale strategy
• Landscape architecture - parks, waterfronts, campuses and public realm
• Civil engineering - grading, drainage, utilities and site infrastructure
• Space planning - utilisation studies and programming
• Graphic design - wayfinding, identity and environmental graphics

Areas of Expertise

Alongside its core services, Sasaki maintains specialist capabilities that cut across projects.

• Sustainability, resilience and ecology
• Community engagement and inclusive design
• Data and design tools, including custom digital platforms
• An in-house fabrication studio for physical prototyping
• Applied research feeding directly into live projects

Client Sectors

• Education - university and college campuses, academic buildings and campus plans
• Civic - municipal buildings, public space and government facilities
• Arts and culture - museums, performance venues and cultural districts
• Commercial development - mixed-use districts and developer-led schemes
• Corporate and office - headquarters and workplace campuses
• Sports and recreation - athletic facilities and recreation centres
• Science and technology - research and innovation buildings

Data, Tools and Fabrication

Sasaki invests in its own digital tools and analytical methods, applying data to questions such as campus utilisation, mobility, ecological performance and climate risk. Pairing that with a physical fabrication studio gives designers both quantitative rigour and hands-on making within the same practice - an unusual combination that supports evidence-based decisions without losing craft.

Sustainability and Resilience

Planning and designing for a sustainable, resilient future is one of the firm's stated values. Its landscape and ecology expertise is central here: on waterfront and campus projects, stormwater, habitat, heat and sea-level rise are design problems that must be solved at site scale, not treated as compliance items.

Recognition and Reach

Over seven decades the practice has received more than 1,000 awards and has worked with clients across the globe, from North American universities to Chinese city districts. That international footprint is supported by a genuinely multilingual, multicultural staff rather than by exported templates.

Market Position

Sasaki competes most directly in campus planning, landscape architecture and urban design, where its integrated model is a real advantage. For institutions running long capital programmes, having planning, landscape, architecture and civil engineering under one contract reduces coordination gaps between disciplines.

Why AEC Teams Should Know Sasaki

Teams working on campus frameworks, waterfront regeneration or civic districts will find Sasaki a strong reference for interdisciplinary practice, data-informed planning and ecologically grounded design across the built environment.