Tibor Feger Joins HCH Partners

Tibor Fejer has joined the architectural staff of HCH Partners as a senior designer. He will provide the firm with conceptual graphic designs of building floor plans and aesthetics.

Fejer, 36, comes to HCH after working 4 1/2 years as a graphics designer in the San Diego office of Gerald Garapich & Associates, a Las Vegas-based architectural firm. He said he joined HCH because he said he was tired of designing casinos.

“My responsibilities over at Garapich were to design casinos and a little bit of stage architecture,” Fejer said. “I wanted to work on real structures,” he said.

Before Garapich, Fejer worked five years as a draftsman for a firm called Z-T in Denver. It was his first job in the United States.

Fejer, a native of Budapest, Hungary, received a bachelor’s degree from the Technical College of Budapest, and a master’s degree from the Hungarian University of Applied Arts. It was at the University that Fejer received individual instruction from Erno Rubik, inventor of the Rubik’s Cube.

“Learning from Rubik was quite an experience,” Fejer recalls. “He was a very quiet person, but knowledgeable, and I was lucky to get him as a professor. . . . In terms of architectural design and aesthetic design, Erno taught me everything I know.”

Fejer said one of the biggest moments in his life was when he earned his U. S. citizenship in 1988.

Now that he’s at HCH, Fejer hopes to do some “very quality projects.” “I don’t want to do just the routine industrial buildings and warehouses,” he said. “I want to get a chance to do some quality architecture.”

Before a disc injury last year, Fejer was an avid soccer player, playing up to five times a week. While he still fits in a game here and there, he spends every other weekend shark fishing.