These presentations will present an in-depth look at the ways in which Hawaii was portrayed by the media during the 1950s as a modern Paradise of the Pacific, an exotic tropical island chain with all the amenities of home, and the ramifications of the success of this marketing on today’s historic preservation efforts. APPROVED for 1.5 LU|Elective AIA CES credits.

The emergence of Hawaii as one of the leaders in the travel industry during the post-World War II period, resulted in a distinctive and sophisticated approach to resort design, which has influenced the environments in which people vacation throughout Asia and the Pacific. APPROVED for 1.5 LU|HSW AIA CES credits.

Dean Sakamoto, FAIA, LEED AP, SEED, is a practicing architect, educator and director of a public interest design foundation. He is the founding principal of Dean Sakamoto Architects/SHADE, based in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. DSA, was founded in New Haven, Connecticut (1999), while he served on the Yale University faculty. In 2014, Dean established SHADE, a collaborative environmental design practice and non-profit public interest design institute in Honolulu. As an educator, he served on the faculties of Pratt Institute, Yale School of Architecture, Yale School of the Environment, and the University of Hawai‘i Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He was named Transformation Fellow at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, School of Architecture (2019) and returned to the Yale School of Architecture faculty in 2022. He is the primary author of the book and curator of the international exhibition, Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff (Yale University Press in Association with the Honolulu Museum of Art, 2007, 2015, 2022). He is one of the founding members of Docomomo US_Hawai'i Chapter and was its first president (2012-2013).