Hans Robert Hiegel (born 1954) is a German architect.

Career

Hiegel was born in

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. He lived in London until 1978 and his first work was ''House Agne'', 1983. Succeeding projects tend to a classical architectural style. Important articles include ''Werkheft04'' (), and by Thilo Hilpert in the Frankfurt Lounge, first published in the Japanese architectural journal

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, Tokyo. He studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and at the Architectural Association (AA), together with

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. His teaching locations include the AA, the HfG Karlsruhe and the

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, Jerusalem.

Work

In 1983, he designed the project

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in Frankfurt am Main, which turned out to be most influential on the Messeturm. Personal contacts to Joseph Rykwert who introduced him to the work and the person of Hans-Georg Gadamer were seminal to his philosophy and his thinking. "Oase" is the name of his prizewinning design for a Kindergarten near Baden-Baden which continues his quest for classical positions in architectural language.

Publications

* Architecture in Transition, (exhibition catalog) Kaiserslautern Architekten: Gianni Braghieri, Hans Robert Hiegel,

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, Mark Mack,

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, Peter Wilson; * Architekturbiennale 1985, Venice, * L`Architettura nella società post-industriale, Paolo Portoghesi, Philip Johnson, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves,

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, Hans Robert Hiegel, Massimo Scolari; Electra Editrice: Milan, Paris, New York * Campanile, LEGO ua Architekten/Künstler W. Hahn,

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, EO Parry, HR Hiegel, K. Lafitte Abrams, New York, * H.R.Hiegel, Werkheft eines Architekten, 2001, sw-Abbildungen und Text von Dr. Mathias Schreiber, * Neoclassico, C.di R. Masiero, ; ua Sol LeWitt, G. Merz, Ann u Patrick Poirier; ua James Stirling, Mario Campi, Aldo Rossi, Hans Robert Hiegel, Leon Krier, Robert Venturi, Venice: Marsillo Editori * Werkheft 08, Oswald Mathias Ungers, 80th birthday, Jo. Franzke,

Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani (born 1951, in Rome, Italy) is an architect, architectural theorist and architectural historian as well as a professor emeritus for the History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ET ...

, Vittorio Gregotti, Hans Robert Hiegel, Robert A. M. Stern, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, Jean-Louis CohenSchumann, Ulrich. ''Oswald Mathias Ungers'', mens architecturae, Publishers, Karlsruhe, 2006, p. 30, p. 48.

References

External links

Official website
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