HISAKA
AND ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS
Berkeley,
California
Recently
relocated to Berkeley from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hisaka and Associates,
Architects formerly practiced architecture with offices based in the Midwest
and Cambridge for 40 years. The office’s commissions included a wide
variety of architectural projects, including institutional, corporate, and
development projects.
The
firm’s projects are located along the East Coast, in the Midwest, in
California, and as far away as Japan and Scotland. Some of the more notable
commissions include a series of projects completed over a 10 year
period at Gund Hall, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design; the
Bartholomew County Jail in Columbus, Indiana, under the sponsorship of the
prestigious Cummins Foundation Architectural Program; and the well published
Ibaraki Golf Club House in Japan.
The
office has also completed numerous projects in architecturally stringent
Washington D.C., including 2 large, award winning office buildings in the
downtown area. Presently, Hisaka and his associates have been traveling
frequently to London to design a Designers’ Center, which is approximately
1 million square feet in area and located outside of historic Edinburgh,
Scotland.
Don
Hisaka, the firm’s principal, has lectured at many universities, and
served on numerous national design juries. At Harvard University, he taught
at its Graduate School of Design and was a member of the Visiting Committee
at the College’s Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Don
Hisaka’s return to California was instigated by his appointment as the
Friedman Visiting Professor of Architecture at U.C. Berkeley.
The
firm’s work has been published in more than 70 domestic and international
journals and has been the recipient of 40 important design awards.
