4th Saturday Host | Green Home

 

Keiji Asakura, ASLA, Principal,  holds over 33 years of experience in Urban Design, Landscape Architecture and Community Planning throughout the US and internationally. He places high regard for public service as evidenced by his receipt of the 2009 President’s Call to Service Award, City of Houston Mayor White's 2005 Proud Partner Award for Distinguished Service and the American Society Landscape Architects' Texas Chapter 2002 Community Leadership Award. Keiji was a founding principal of SLA Studio Land Inc. in Houston, California and Tokyo before opening ARC in 2004.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Representative recent projects:

• Lincoln Park, Houston Housing Authority, Houston
• Oxford Place, Houston Housing Authority, Houston
• The Oaks Landscape Plan, Galveston Housing Authority, Galveston
• New Hope Housing, Canal Street SRO Apts, Houston
• New Hope Housing, Sakowitz SRO Apts, Houston*
• Avenue CDC, Avenue Place Affordable Housing
• Community Planning, Houston
• Alief Clinic, HCHD, Houston
• Alief Eligibility Center, HCHD, Houston
• Optimum Personal Care, Houston
• US Veteran Center, Houston
• Planned Parenthood Headquarters, Houston
• NCI Baker-Ripley Community Center, Gulfton, Houston*
• New Horizon Family Center, Houston
• Westside Senior Education Center, Harris County, PCT 3
• AAMA Master Plan, Houston
• Northside Livable Centers Study, Houston
• Upper Kirby District Livable Centers Study, Houston
• Galveston Livable Communities Initiative, Galveston
• Genesis Sculpture Garden, Houston
• Kendall Library and Community Center, City of Houston*
• Clayton Library Renovation, City of Houston*
• Sienna Campus, Houston Community College System
• BAPS Mandir, Temple and Community Center, Sugar Land
• Hermann Park McGovern Lake Expansion, Houston
• Mandell Park Master Plan & Community Garden, Houston
• Holcombe Sq. Pedestrian Enhancement Plan, Houston Med Ctr.
• Museum District "Art of Walking" Pedestrian Enhancement Plan, Houston

* LEED Certified or Registered

 

Boards and Commissions:

• City of Houston Planning Commissioner
• Houston Arts Alliance Civic Arts Committee
• Blueprint Houston Board
• Scenic Houston Board
• Japan America Society of Houston
• Houston Japan Festival Organizing Committee
• Hermann Park Japanese Garden Advisory
• Botanic Garden of Houston Advisory Council
• Mercer Arboretum & Botanic Garden former Board Member
• Keep Houston Beautiful former Commissioner
• Municipal Arts Commission former Commissioner
• Tower Commission former Commissioner
• Park People, former Board Member
• Houston Arts Alliance, former Board Member
• American Society of Landscape Architects former Section Chair

 

 Memberships:

•  American Society of Landscape Architects
• Japanese American Citizens League
• US Green Building Council
• Houston Minority Business Council
• Rice Design Alliance
• Urban Land Institute
• Congress for the New Urbanism

 

Teaching:

• University of Houston - Guest Lecturer in Landscape Architecture History 1986-87
• Texas Tech University – Guest Studio Critic 1987
• University of Texas, Austin – Guest Studio Critic 1998
• Louisiana State University – Guest Studio Lecturer 1998
• Texas A&M University – Guest Studio Critic 1997, 2004
• Rice University Graduate Design Critic 2007
• University of Houston – Design Guest Critic/Lecturer 1986-2010
• Texas Prairie View A&M University – Guest Studio Critic 2009

 

Registration:

• Registered Landscape Architect State of Texas #1170
• Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Board/CLARB #893

 

Education:

• 1977:    Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture, California State Polytechnic University,                                Pomona
• 2006:    Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, US Federal Highway Administration
• 2004:    Applied Fluvial Geomorphology, Wildland Hydrology, Colorado