Michael Hopkins
Michael Hopkins was born in Poole, England, United Kingdom on May 7th, 1935 and is the Architect. At the age of 88, Michael Hopkins biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Sir Michael John Hopkins (born 7 May 1935) is an English architect.
Career
Michael Hopkins was born in Poole, Dorset, and attended Sherborne School and The Architectural Association. He worked for Frederick Gibberd before joining Norman Foster in Ipswich as the project architect. Hopkins, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Terry Farrell, and Nicholas Grimshaw were among the leading figures in the introduction of high-tech architecture in the United Kingdom.
In 1976, Hopkins Architects formed Hopkins Architects in collaboration with Patricia Hopkins, who had previously owned her own business. One of their first buildings was their own house in Hampstead, a lightweight steel frame with glass façades. Early Hopkins Architects' buildings, including the Greene King brewery in Bury St Edmunds and Schlumberger Labs near Cambridge, used new materials and construction methods. The firm debating conventional architectural wisdom by demonstrating that lightweight steel-and-glass structures could be energy efficient and pioneered the use of permanent lightweight fabric structures in the United Kingdom, of which the Mound Stand at Lord's Cricket Ground is a prime example. Traditional crafts such as masonry and carpentry were used to explore what they called the "updating of the traditional materials," adding to the expressive potential of traditional crafts such as masonry and carpentry by combining them with modern engineering. The practice has been praised for combining ultra-modern techniques with traditional architecture, broadening their palette of materials and forms.
Michael and Patty Hopkins received the Royal Institute of British Architects (Rochester) Gold Medal, which was awarded in 1994. Hopkins' work is described as "not simply a matter of utilizing technologies to build beautifully, nor simply of accommodating complicated and changing jobs in the most elegant manner, but also of capturing in stone and transmitting bronze the finest aspirations of our time," the citation states.
Michael Hopkins was elected to the Royal Academy in 1992 and was honoured as a CBE and knighted for services to architecture.