History
Murase was born in San Francisco as a third generation Japanese-American. Murase graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BLA in landscape architecture. He was hired by Robert Royston & Associates in 1965. To further enrich his experience in the landscape architecture field Murase moved to Japan, where he maintained a practice for almost 10 years conducting garden research at Kyoto University. He then moved to Portland to become a local Oregonian. He taught at the University of Oregon's Department of Landscape Architecture for a few years and then he worked for the EDAW in Portland, OR. In 1982, he formed Murase Associates in Portland, and opened a Seattle office in 1989. His firm went on to win about 50 design awards. He was a fellow member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and honorary member of AIA Seattle.
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