HL is a network based architectural cooperative. The collaborations and the team is organized around specific projects engaging other professionals and disciplines. Constant factor is Croatian Dutch architect Lada Hršak. A longstanding collaboration with Dutch architect and urbanist Daniëlle Huls, operates under the name DHL architecture. Urbanist Daniel Casas Valle, textile designer Susann Rittermann, and narrative designer Nadia Troeman are few of the frequent collaborators.Lada was educated at the Faculty of Architecture at the TU in Zagreb and subsequently completed postgraduate studies at The Berlage Institute in Amsterdam. The HL think tank often runs parallel with the work in a number of renowned Dutch architectural practices. Teaching at a variety of schools in the Netherlands and abroad includes the Academie voor Bouwkunst, The Berlage Institute, TU Zagreb, KU Leuven and the University of Auckland.At HL they deal with issues of contemporary identity, place, scale and materiality. A specific focus lays on the anthropological aspects of culture in relation to the use of space. Each place is recognized by elements of global culture but also, and more importantly, by those of local relevance. People do not live in a generic location but in a specific place. HL identifies and utilizes the distinct characteristics of a location while developing both the brief and the design. The issues they analyse are primarily site specific and landscape, rituals, history, economy, ecology and marginalized communities are all important themes. What they bring as designers is not necessarily the creation of something new, but the articulation of existing qualities in a new light and they use this approach to improve locations of both beauty and conflict.