New at the department: Prof. Simon Hartmann

Simon Hartmann has been appointed to the Chair of Building Planning and Design for the summer semester 2019.

Simon Hartmann
Simon Hartmann


Prof. Hartmannwas born in Bern (CH) in 1974 and grew up in Basel. After graduating from the Humanistic Gymnasium, he studied at the EPF Lausanne, the ETH Zurich and the TU Berlin. From 2002 to 2007 he gained his first teaching experience as an assistant at the ETH Studio Basel. From 2009 to 2017, Simon Hartmann was a lecturer in design at the HTA Fribourg, and at irregular intervals he taught as a visiting professor of design at the universities of UIBK Innsbruck (2011), KIT Karlsruhe (2014), American College University Skopje (2017), Yale School of Architecture (2018) and Harvard GSD (2018 to 2020).
In 2003, Simon Hartmann founded the office HHF Architekten with Tilo Herlach and Simon Frommenwiler and together with between 15 and 25 employees, the three partners are still planning and realizing projects worldwide in a wide variety of scales and uses.

His projects include:

Baby Dragon,
Pavilion for Children in the Jinhua Architecture Park, China
2004 - 2006

Labels Berlin IIBerlin
Fashion Center, 2007 - 2010

LichtstrasseBasel
2008 - 2015

Art FarmNew York
Gallery and Art Warehouse, 2006 - 2008

Ruta del PeregrinoMexico
Viewpoint
2008 - 2010

Dom RevolucijeMontenegro
2016 -

The work of HHF Architects has been widely published, awarded and exhibited.

More information about the projects can be found at:
http://www.hhf.ch

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