AMAG 40: Go Hasegawa assembles a curated survey of key projects by one of Japan's most quietly influential architects, tracing a consistent preoccupation with lightness, place, and the relationship between structure and the human body across domestic and communal scales.
About This Book
Go Hasegawa's architecture resists easy categorisation. Neither strictly minimalist nor overtly expressive, his work operates through careful restraint — finding spatial richness in the negotiation between building and landscape, interior and exterior, individual and community. This issue of AMAG gathers projects spanning private residences in rural Japan and urban Tokyo through to built work on European sites, revealing a practice defined by ecological sensitivity and structural clarity. For architects and students grappling with questions of dwelling, domesticity, and the poetics of construction, this monograph presents a body of work that rewards sustained attention.
Key Features
- 208 pages of architectural photography, drawings, and project documentation across residential and communal typologies
- Notable projects include House in a Forest, Pilotis in a Forest, House in Komazawa, Yoshino Cedar House, Apartment in Nerima, and House in Gotanda
- Published by AMAG, ISBN: 9789893628416
What You'll Discover
- How Hasegawa employs structural lightness as both a formal and philosophical position — buildings that touch the ground with deliberate delicacy
- The Yoshino Cedar House as a model for architecture that dissolves the boundary between private dwelling and communal life under one roof
- How urban projects like Apartment in Nerima and House in Gotanda reinterpret domestic space within the constraints of Tokyo's dense residential fabric
- A consistent sensitivity to memory and the body across geographically and programmatically diverse sites, from rural Japanese forests to European contexts
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 24 × 32 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789893628416
- Publisher: AMAG
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and students drawn to Japanese spatial thinking, practitioners working with residential and communal typologies, and design researchers interested in the intersection of ecology, structure, and dwelling.