Résumé

Principal, Koichi Kawana, Landscape Architect, Los Angeles, CA. In his practice as a garden designer, Kawana laid out Sancho-En at Chicago's Botanical Garden, the Japanese Friendship Garden at Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, and the Japanese Garden at the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA (1984), and the Seiwa-en Japanese Garden in the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint Louis, MO. In 1969, Kawana supervised the restoration of the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden at UCLA following damage caused by heavy rains.

Teaching

Kawana was the Principal Architecture Associate and Lecturer in Japanese Art, Architecture and Landscape Design at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); he served for 24 years as the Principal Architecture Associate and Lecturer in Japanese Art, Architecture and Landscape Design at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood, Los Angeles, CA.

Progressive Architecture Design Award, 1972; Companionate of Merit, Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1974; the Victor M. Carter Diamond Award of the Japan America Society of Southern California, 1980; the Henry Shaw Medal, Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis, MO, 1987; Knight's Grade, Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1990;

College

B.S., Yokohama Municipal University, Yokohama, Japan, 1951; A.B., International Relations, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood, Los Angeles, 1955; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Westwood (UCLA), Los Angeles, 1959; M.F.A. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Westwood, Los Angeles, 1964; Ph.D., Pacific Western University, CA, 1979.

Relocation

Kawana was born on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. In 1951, he graduated from the Yokohama Municipal University.

Kawana traveled aboard the liner, the Hawaii Maru from Yokohama, Japan, to San Francisco, CA between 06/18/1952-06/29/1952; his destination at this time was 709 24th Street, Santa Monica, CA. Kawana's entry in the 1955 UCLA Bruin Yearbook noted that he came from Otsu, Yokosuka, Japan. (He probably attended high school at Yokosukauotsu.) He lived at 633 24th Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90402-3135, in the early 1990s.

Kawana was made a naturalized on

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