Richard Hassell is an Australian-born architect and artist who has lived in Singapore since 1989. He founded the architectural practice WOHA with Wong Mun Summ in 1994. WOHA has exhibited their work in the Venice Biennale in 2016 with a video installation entitled Fragments of an Urban Future and in New York at the Skyscraper Museum with Garden City | Mega City both in 2016. WOHA have received 11 President’s Design Awards, Singapore’s highest design accolade .In 2018 WOHA received the prize for the World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival for their mixed use project Kampung Admiralty.

Hassell’s art practice intersects with the architectural practice, and explores complex geometries and tiling. Since 2004 Hassell has extended M. C. Escher’s work on tessellations and symmetry into new geometries discovered after Escher’s death. Hassell’s works are in private and corporate collections in the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, and in the Australian National University collection.