Hugh Hardy

Hugh Hardy has built and reshaped America’s cultural landscape through architecture. Throughout his fifty year career, Mr. Hardy's work has been consistently recognized by civic, architectural, and preservation organizations for a progressive spirit and sensitive understanding of context. He is known for design of distinctive new buildings, restoration of historic structures, and planning projects for the public realm.

Before starting Hugh Hardy & Associates in 1962, he served in the engineering corps of the U.S. Navy and as architectural assistant to Jo Mielziner in New York, assisting him in his collaboration with Eero Saarinen on designing Lincoln Center’s Beaumont Theater. In 1967, with Malcolm Holzman and Norman Pfeiffer, Hardy founded Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, which became internationally recognized for its new, distinctly American architecture. Now with his third firm, H3 Hardy Collaboration Architecture, he continues to influence the country’s cultural landscape in collaboration with a new generation of partners.

Born in Majorca, Spain, of American parents, Mr. Hardy holds a Master in Fine Arts in Architecture from Princeton University, where he also received his Bachelor of Architecture and was a D’Amato Prizeman. He has been a member of the American Institute of Architects since 1963 and belongs to the College of Fellows.