Michael Hopkins (architect)

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Sir Michael John Hopkins (born May 7, 1935 in Poole , Dorset ) is a British architect. Along with Norman Foster , Richard Rogers , Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell, he is considered the leading exponent of high-tech architecture in Great Britain.

Hopkins attended Sherborne School and studied architecture at the Architectural Association. He then worked for the architect Frederick Gibberd and subsequently became a partner of Norman Foster . Among other things, he was the architect of the Willis Faber headquarters in Ipswich .

In 1976 he founded his own architectural firm, Hopkins Architects. Partner in his office was his wife Patricia (Patty) Hopkins, also an architect. They used new materials and construction techniques and stood for lightweight structures made of steel and glass and tent roofs. They showed that these could be built energy-efficiently. First, they designed their own steel and glass house in minimalist architecture. In many cases, industrial buildings followed, such as the Schlumberger Research Center in Cambridge. From the 1980s onwards, they were the first of the British high-tech architects to mix these with traditional building materials such as wood and masonry. Typical examples of this were the new Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground , which used the old facade, and Bracken House in City of London, which was built around the old Financial Times printing press rooms, the new Opera House in Glyndebourne and the Queen's Building at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was the architect of Ades Olympic Velodrome in London and the Kroon Hall in Yale.

He is Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and was knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 1995 . In 1992 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts . He and his wife received the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1994.

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SURNAME Hopkins, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopkins, Michael John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Poole , Dorset