HATTY HATCH

Hatty Hatch is an architect, an artist and an educator.  Having received a Bachelor degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan and a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Hatty has been practicing her crafts for over 50 years. Included in that time are several years teaching architecture at SCI-ARC and art at public schools in Michigan, Wisconsin and Washington.

Through her role as an educator, Hatty is committed to the notion that creative and mental growth in people flourish in supportive yet demanding academic environments where curiosity and risk taking are encouraged, where knowledge and basic skills of the profession are broadened and expanded upon, and where ideas (both new and old) are rigorously challenged and discussed.

In 1983, she co-founded Hatch-Colasuonno Studio with fellow architect Luis Colasuonno. The firm focused on affordable housing, civic, mixed-use, residential and institutional projects in the Los Angeles region. The Studio strived to examine the ways in which architecture is understood and how it evolves into meaningful spatial and formal experiences through the implementation of formal and conceptual dialogues with the cultural as well as the physical environment.

Merging with Tima Bell 30 years later, they formed a partnership that continued the affordable housing work under the banner of HC+RA. Now that collaboration continues at Bell Design Group, where Hatty infuses projects with her attentive and creative eye that brings color, dialogue, warmth and humanity to the homes and communities being built.

Guiding her role as Senior Design Associate is Hatty’s belief that architecture is of profound meaning to society as a communicator of cultural norms and values which can be observed for both contemporary and historical cultures. She has shared this belief as a lecturer around the world and through exhibits and publications of her work, including in the LA Times, Sunset Magazine, The Milwaukee Journal and Architectural Record.