B.S. Landscape Architecture '50

A graduate from the University of California with a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture in 1950, Asa Hanamoto was a Founding Partner at the office of Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey, one of the founding firms in the modern landscape architectural movement.

While at CED, Asa was a student of Robert Royston (B.S. ‘40 and Distinguished Alumnus in 2000). Royston had teamed with fellow landscape architects Garrett Eckbo and Ed Williams to form the Landscape architecture firm Eckbo Royston & Williams. This partnership grew and changed over 34 years to evolve into Royston Hanamoto Alley & Abey. With a distinguished career spanning more than 40 years, Asa’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 is one of the pioneers in the contemporary practice of Landscape Architecture. And 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.

From 1984 through 1988, Asa was appointed to serve on the Landscape Architecture Accreditation Board of the American Society of Landscape Architects. In 1984, he was made a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He also served on 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 has been a visiting lecturer at UC Berkeley, the National University of Mexico, the University of Illinois, and Mississippi State University. From 1976 to 1984, he was appointed to the Roster of Visiting Evaluators (ROVE) for schools of Landscape Architecture.

He created and sustained an increasingly complex and varied practice, beginning in the days when there were very few practicing landscape architects. As a founder and partner in the firm of Royston Hanamoto Alley and Abey, Asa's impact on the field of landscape architecture for over four decades is truly inspiring.