GO HASEGAWA

Villa beside a Lake Shizuoka, Japan 2020
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
Villa beside a Lake Shizuoka, Japan 2020
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
Villa beside a Lake Shizuoka, Japan 2020
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
Villa beside a Lake Shizuoka, Japan 2020
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
flying carpet Mexico City, Mexico 2019
© Jaime Navarro
flying carpet Mexico City, Mexico 2019
© Jaime Navarro
flying carpet Mexico City, Mexico 2019
© Jaime Navarro
Chapel in Guastall Guastalla, Italy 2017
© Stefano Graziani
Chapel in Guastall Guastalla, Italy 2017
© Stefano Graziani
Yoshino Cedar House Nara, Japan 2016
© Hisao Suzuki
Yoshino Cedar House Nara, Japan 2016
© Hisao Suzuki
Yoshino Cedar House Nara, Japan 2016
© Hisao Suzuki
Yoshino Cedar House Nara, Japan 2016
© Hisao Suzuki
Apartment in Okachimachi Tokyo, Japan 2014
© Takaya Sakano
Apartment in Okachimachi Tokyo, Japan 2014
© Takaya Sakano
Apartment in Okachimachi Tokyo, Japan 2014
© Takaya Sakano
House in Kyodo Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Kyodo Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Kyodo Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Kyodo Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Komazawa Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Komazawa Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Komazawa Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
House in Komazawa Tokyo, Japan 2011
© Iwan Baan
Pilotis in a Forest Gunma, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
Pilotis in a Forest Gunma, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
Pilotis in a Forest Gunma, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
Apartment in Nerima Tokyo, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
Apartment in Nerima Tokyo, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
Apartment in Nerima Tokyo, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
Apartment in Nerima Tokyo, Japan 2010
© Iwan Baan
House in a Forest Nagano, Japan 2006
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
House in a Forest Nagano, Japan 2006
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
House in a Forest Nagano, Japan 2006
© Go Hasegawa and Associates
House in a Forest Nagano, Japan 2006
© Go Hasegawa and Associates

Go Hasegawa earned a Master of Engineering degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002 and worked at Taira Nishizawa Architects before establishing Go Hasegawa & Associates in 2005. He quickly completed a series of notable projects, paying great attention to detail and proportion. His approach is both contemporary and deeply rooted in Japanese tradition. Each project is an intensive inquiry on our perception of space, gravity, and time. Hasegawa challenges pre-existing ideas on largeness/smallness, heaviness/lightness, and newness/oldness, seeking values not previously recognized.
 
Go Hasegawa is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 Shinkenchiku Prize and selection as one of the ten 2014 AR Design Vanguard architects. He designed a long list of residential projects in Japan, including: House in a Forest (2006), Pilotis in a Forest (2010), House in Kyodo (2011), Yoshino Cedar House (2016), Roof on a Ridge and Villa beside a Lake (both 2020). Non-residential architecture includes the Nippon Design Center in Ginza (2012) and the Chapel in Guastalla (Italy, 2017) a circular marble structure, the inner side of which is a continuous ring of benches set in niches carved so thin that the stone lets in light. In 2019 Hasegawa completed flying carpet, a ribbon-like elevated walkway made of steel water pipes in the garden of Luis Barragán’s house-studio in Mexico City.
 
Several monographs about Go Hasegawa’s work have been published by TOTO, a+u and El Croquis.