Hans Robert Hiegel

Hiegel was born in Kaiserslautern. He lived in London until 1978 and in 1982 he founded the architecture firm H.R. Hiegel Architekten. 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 A+U, Tokyo. He studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and at the Architectural Association (AA), together with Steven Holl. His teaching locations include the AA, the HfG Karlsruhe and the Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem.

In 1983, he designed the project Campanile in Frankfurt am Main, a skyscraper design with a height of 180 m. The pyramid atop the design turned out to be influential on the design of 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.