Robert Sabbatini is a planner, landscape architect, and urban designer. As a sole proprietor with over thirty years of experience, he applies his skills as a prime consultant and in association with colleagues in the planning and design professions. His work has positively affected the lives of students, faculty, and staff of 29 institutions of higher education, encompassing over sixty projects that range from master planning to design. Recent work includes the landscape cultural heritage plan for Mills College located in Oakland, California, and several projects for Texas Tech’s Lubbock and Odessa campuses. For over a decade, Sabbatini headed campus planning at Sasaki Associates, San Francisco. As a principal there, he directed the planning and design work for many campuses and cultural institutions including the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Nevada, Reno; Pierce College, Los Angeles; and The Huntington in San Marino, California. His prior planning and design positions were with POD, Inc., Santa Ana and San Francisco; Roy Mann Associates, Cambridge; and Derek Lovejoy and Partners, Great Britain. Sabbatini is a frequent speaker at conferences as well as a design critic to academic institutions and has served as an instructor in the Professional Development Course in Campus Planning and Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Numerous planning and design awards attest to the quality and comprehensive character of his work.

Artist Statement: “Traces”- Although butchered, the tree remains intact in the traces of its branches on the Sears building facade.

“Peony”- Brilliant and subtle; simple and complex.