HHF Architects
Phone: +41 61 756 70 10
Fax: +41 61 756 70 11
Email: info@hhf.ch
Website: https://www.hhf.ch/hhf.html
Biography:
Team HHF:
HERLACH HARTMANN FROMMENWILER
with David Gregori y Ribes
Team Jacob & Spreng:
Christoph Jacob and Bettina Spreng
ABOUT
HHF Architects was founded in 2003 by Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler, whose personal, academic and professional track records are resolutely global in orientation. In little more than a decade, HHF has researched and built projects in Switzerland, France, the United States, Germany, Montenegro, China, and Mexico. And while global commissions marked by a growing lack of distinction may be our twentieth-century legacy, HHF is a different story altogether. At ease in extremely varied contexts, the office develops projects that are the fruit of long conversations with clients of atypical ambition: a stop-over for pilgrims, a children’s park, a collectors’ storehouse, a revolutionary temple reuse in the Balkans, an observatory and insect museum on the loops of the Seine, downtown retail centers, and appealing apartments and boutiques. The scope of work and architectural practice ranges from urbanism and large-scale construction, to retail centers, museums, hotels and public pavilions, to luxurious apartments and interior design.
From the beginning HHF was looking for collaborations with other architects and artists in order to widen their view on projects and enrich the quality of specific proposals. In this context, worldwide perceived group projects such as "Ruta del Peregrino" and the fruitful collaboration with the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei emerged.
In addition to building, teaching is an important activity of the office. The principals of HHF were Visiting Professors at the University of Innsbruck, the MIT School of Architecture and Planning in Boston, and at Yale School of Architecture. Since fall 2018 they are teaching at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT and at Harvard Graduate School of Design. HHF also participated as jury members at numerous universities worldwide.
HHF has been honored with various national and international awards and were invited to several international Biennials, including the Bi-City Shenzen/Hong Kong Biennial, the 13th, 14th and 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017. Alongside other distinctions, HHF were honored with the Wallpaper Design Award, the important German "Häuser des Jahres" Award and the Architekturpreis Berlin. They received the Basel Heritage Protection for the best new building. In 2015 HHF won the gold award at the Swiss Architecture Awards.
Their work is part of the permanent collections of Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Architekturmuseum der TU München at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, and the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
FOUNDING PARTNERS
Tilo Herlach
1972 born in Zurich, Switzerland | 1992–1998 studies at ETH Zurich and ETH Lausanne | 1998–2003 collaboration with d-company and Rolf Furrer Architekten | 2003 founding HHF Architects | Since 2006 Member of the Board for Urban Planning and Architecture, SIA Basel | 2007 member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects | Since 2010 BSA member | 2011 Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck | Since 2015 permanent member of the Berlin Chamber of Architects | Since 2018 Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design
Simon Hartmann
1974 born in Bern, Switzerland | 1994–2000 studies at ETH Lausanne, TU Berlin and ETH Zurich | 2000–2003 collaboration with Rolf Furrer Architekten | 2002–2007 Teaching Assistant ETH Studio Basel | 2003 founding of HHF Architects | 2009–2017 Professor at HEIA Fribourg | Since 2010 BSA member | 2011 Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck | 2014 Visiting Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT | 2018–2019 Visiting Professor at Yale School of Architecture | Since 2018 Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design | From 2019 Chair of Planning and Design at the Department of Architecture at KIT Karlsruhe
Simon Frommenwiler
1972 born in London, UK | 1994–2000 studies at ETH Zurich | 1997–2003 collaborations with Bearth & Deplazes and Skidmore Owings & Merrill | 2003 founding of HHF Architects | 2005–2007 Teaching Assistant at ETH Lausanne | Since 2010 BSA member | 2011 Guest Professor at the Joint Master of Architecture, Fribourg | 2011–2013 Visiting Professor at ENSA Strasbourg | 2013–2018 Associate Professor at ENSA Strasbourg | 2014 Lecturer of Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Since 2016 Chairman of Bund Schweizer Architekten BSA Basel | Since 2018
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