High-Tech pioneer and Hopkins Architects founder Michael Hopkins passes away aged 88

2023-06-20T15:30:00-04:00

One of the most notable contributors to the development of contemporary British architecture is being mourned after acclaimed Hopkins Architects co-founder Sir Michael Hopkins passed away last week at the age of 88.

A pioneer of the High-Tech movement, Hopkins was considered one of the most successful building designers in post-1970s England thanks to key projects such as 2001’s Portcullis House and the 1987 Mound Stand at Lord’s Cricket Ground that displayed a unique sensitivity towards historical context while helping to propel his generation of architects to widespread critical acceptance.

Hopkins' Schlumberger Research Centre, in Cambridge. Image courtesy Flickr user Valerian Guillot (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Joining with contemporaries Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, Hopkins broke conventions in almost every typology he worked with in order to establish the style against both the then-current and ages-old material heritage of the country that he would eventually come to reference in a si...

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High-Tech pioneer and Hopkins Architects founder Michael Hopkins passes away aged 88