Influential British architect Sir Michael Hopkins CBE has died at the age of 88. He was one of the most renowned British architects of recent decades, with projects including Portcullis House at the Palace of Westminster, the Mound Stand at Lord’s cricket ground, and Nottingham University’s Jubilee campus.
He formed his own practice Hopkins Architects with his wife, architect Patricia (Patty) in 1976, and became a leading light in the ‘hi-tech’ architecture movement alongside eminent designers like Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Nicholas Grimshaw.
He and Patty jointly won the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1994, and Hopkins was knighted in 1995.
Michael Taylor, principal at Hopkins Architects, said: “Michael will be sadly missed by all of us who were lucky enough to have worked with him. He was consistently rigorous in his thinking, brilliant in his analysis and fearlessly creative in his designing. To have worked with him on so many projects was an education like no other and an immense privilege.”
Taylor said that Hopkins’ career demonstrated how to “put the materials together in an honest and contemporary way so that the building would appear calm and make immediate sense to the end user. Nothing was ever taken for granted.”