Why put Go Hasegawa as the lead-off batter? First, the lead-off is one of the most important spots in the order as it sets the pace of the game. Since the founding of his office in 2005, Hasegawa's career has been characterized by a slow and steady pace of growth. Beginning with the single-family houses in Japan and steadily expanding to other typologies and geographies, the evolution of his work is rooted in a reverence for history without being bounded by the baggage of that very history.