Peter Hasselman

Biography: Peter Hasselman Owner Peter M. Hasselman, FAIA Orinda, CA Peter Hasselman is an architect, urban designer and perspectivist providing consulting services to clients across the United States. He began an unusual career after graduation from the University of Illinois and completion of military service: his first “client” was President Lyndon B. Johnson for whom he designed the 1964 inaugural pavilion (by competition). Then as a designer with several leading firms, he was associated with such projects as: the Pennsylvania Avenue master plan; the new town of Reston, Virginia; the Baltimore Interstate Highway system; and the rehabilitation of the Amtrak stations and the design of new maintenance facilities between Washington and Boston. As a design principal, he designed numerous mixed-used, office, residential, industrial and educational projects on both coasts. To organize his professional life around the areas of his particular expertise, he now provides consulting services in planning, architectural design and presentation drawings. Representative consulting projects include the development of Ford Island, Pearl Harbor; urban developments in Australia and Malaysia; resorts in southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Mexico, Spain and Japan; a state-of-the-art theme park in Dubai; development of Long Beach Harbor; numerous town centers in the U.S.; illustrating the future uses of the Presidio of San Francisco; mixed-use projects in historic Prague and Utrecht; and the master plan for the transportation system of Izmir, Turkey. As a frequent member of the American Institute of Architects and Urban Land Institute panels, he has participated in studies of sixteen cities in the United States. He was also a member of a small group of American architects that traveled to the Soviet Union to redesign the Armenian city of Spitak (which was destroyed in the 1988 earthquake) in the first such collaboration between American and Soviet architects. In addition he was a member of an AIA multi-disciplinary team that advised Atlanta on how that city should respond to the planning opportunities raised by the Olympics in 1996, and a ULI team that advised New Orleans after Katrina. A number of projects have been recognized by competition award, design award or design citation. Peter Hasselman is generally known for his ability to integrate many viewpoints and interests into his work, the active character of his drawings, and a high rate of productivity. He is a member of the Urban Planning and Design Committee of the AIA, a periodic visiting critic at architectural schools and an editorial cartoonist on architectural subjects. He was elected to the College of Fellows of the AIA in 1983. Updated November 2013