Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, commonly called HGA, is an architecture firm based in Minnesota

Minnesota

Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

. It was founded in 1953 by Minnesotans Dick Hammel and Curt Green (Bruce Abrahamson joined in shortly thereafter).

All three of HGA's founders were schooled in the Bauhaus

Bauhaus

', commonly known simply as Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term stood for "School of Building".The Bauhaus school was founded by...

 tradition, which stressed an inter-disciplinary approach to Modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

. They began their work designing K-12

K-12

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 school

School

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buildings. The firm later expanded into other areas. They are currently one of the largest firms in Minnesota.

Leadership

• Daniel Avchen, FAIA, Chairman and CEO
• Stephen Fiskum, AIA, Chief Operating Officer

Notable Buildings

• Bigelow Chapel, United Theological Seminary, New Brighton, Minnesota
• Colonial Church of Edina, Edina, Minnesota
• General Mills Corporate Headquarters, Golden Valley, Minnesota
• Great Lakes Aquarium at The Lake Superior Center, Duluth, Minnesota
• Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine Multidisciplinary Simulation Center, Rochester, Minnesota
• Medtronic World Headquarters, Fridley, Minnesota
• Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota
• University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks, Alaska
• University of California-Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California
• University of Minnesota, Barbara Barker Center for Dance, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Valparaiso University, Center for the Arts, Valparaiso, Indiana

Links

• HGA Website
• Firm history at Great Buildings
• ArchitectureWeek article