HHF architects was founded in 2003 by Tilo Herlach, Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler. Since then HHF could realize several projects in Switzerland. With the ‚Baby Dragon‘ a pavillion in the Jinhua Architecture Park in China they could work for the first time internationally. Further projects in China, the USA, Germany, Mexico and Italy, which are now under construction followed this first building abroad.

At present HHF architects are working amongst other things on a housing project and a restaurant near the City of Basel, a private house in New York, a fashion Center in Berlin, a lookout point in Mexico, a housing project in Rome and two buildings in Inner Mongolia.

In addition to building, teaching is an important constituent of the office. Simon Hartmann was teaching assistant at the ETH Studio Basel with the Professors Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Roger Diener and Marcel Meili since 2002 and head of teaching since 2005. Simon Frommenwiler was teaching assistant with Professor Harry Gugger at the ETH in Lausanne since 2005. HHF architects were guest lectures at the UIA Mexico City and the MIT in Boston and jury members at many different Universities.

Tilo Herlach
1972 Born in Zurich-Switzerland I 1992-1998 Studies in Architecture at ETH Zurich and EPF Lausanne, Prof. P. Berger I 1994 Collaboration with Eduard Neuenschwander, Zurich and d-company, Bern-Switzerland I 1998 Masters at ETH Zurich, Prof Ruggero Tropeano I 1998-2001 Collaboration with d-company, Bern-Switzerland I 2001-2003 Collaboration with Rolf Furrer Architekten, Basel-Switzerland I 2003 Founding of HHF architects, Basel-Switzerland | Since 2006 member of the ‘Board for Urban Planing SIA Basel’

Simon Hartmann
1974 Born in Bern-Switzerland I 1994-2000 Studies in Architecture at EPF Lausanne, TU Berlin and ETH Zurich; Masters at EPF Lausanne with Prof. V. Mangeat I 1997-2003 Collaboration with Nicola di Battista, Rome-Italy; A.B.D.R. Architetti, Rome/Italy; Garofalo & Miura, Rome-Italy; Steuerwald + Scheiwiller Architekten, Basel-Switzerland; Rolf Furrer Architekten, Basel-Switzerland I Since 2002 teaching assistant at the ETH Studio Basel with Prof. Jaques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, Roger Diener, Marcel Meili I 2003 Founding of HHF architects, Basel-Switzerland I 2005-2007 Head of teaching at the ETH Studio Basel I 2009 Professorship at HTA Fribourg

Simon Frommenwiler
1972 Born in London I 1994-2000 Studies in Architecture at ETH Zurich; Masters with Prof. H. Kollhoff I 1997-2003 Collaborations with Bearth & Deplazes, Chur-Switzerland; Faculty member with Prof. Andrea Deplazes, ETH Zurich; ARchos Architecture, Basel-Switzerland; Skidmore Owings & Merrill, New York-USA; WTC-Competition, member of team SOM-Sejima-Neutelings, New York-USA I 2003 Founding of HHF architects I 2005-2007 teaching assistent at ETH Lausanne with Prof. Harry Gugger

Collaborators
Maja d'Aujourdhui, Esther Dürrholder, Janna Jessen, Madeleine Kessler, Cella Hubel, Markus Leixner, Kasia Maksel, Jeffrey Mansfield, Mio Tsuneyama, Christian Weyell

Former Collaborators
Nicole Baron, Christian Brunner, André Burkhardt, Isidor Burkhardt, Nuno Costa, Walter Gloor, Alexa den Hartog, Salomé Gutscher, Bhavana Hameed, Yujin Hirase, Yuko Hirase, Stephanie Hirschvogel, Uta Kamps, Tonja Kersting, Okhyun Kim, Ariel Koechlin, Lukas Küpfer, Mick Lehmann, Rahel Reichenstein, Laurenz Reinitzer, Anna Smorodinsky, Tom Strub, Sonia Taborda, Fumiko Takahama, Daichi Takano, Christoph Thüer, Kohsuke Uesugi, Simon Zimmermann, Magnus Zwyssig