HG Merz

Hans Günter Merz, better known as HG Merz (born 1947 in Tailfingen) is a German architect and museum designer. He is the founder and director of hg merz architekten museumsgestalter, an architecture office that specializes in museum and exhibition design and in refurbishing listed buildings. The office has branches in Stuttgart and Berlin.

From 1993 to 2007, HG Merz was professor for Exhibition Design at the department of Visual Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim. From 2008 until 2014, he was professor for Experimental Design at the department of Architecture at Technische Universität Darmstadt. In 2014, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from TU Darmstadt.

HG Merz was president of the University Council of Bauhaus University Weimar from 2013-2017.

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