Hopkins
Paperback
250 x 290 mm, 9 7/8 x 11 3/8 in
240 pp
250 colour illustrations
90 black and white illustrations
80 line drawings
ISBN 0714834564

Hopkins

A heavily illustrated monograph on architect Michael Hopkins and his firm.
Colin Davies

  • Heavily illustrated monograph on Royal Gold Medal winner Michael Hopkins (b.1935) and his firm, proponents of British Modernism with historicist influences
  • Features all the firm's built works and projects from the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, fully documenting 14 works
  • Hopkins collaborated with Norman Foster in the 1970s and is one of a group of pioneering British architects that also includes Richard Rogers
  • Includes Hopkins' own renowned house of 1976, the Glyndebourne Opera House and the designs for the New Parliamentary Building in London
  • With essays by Colin Davies, Kenneth Frampton and Patrick Hodgkinson
More about this title

Fifteen years ago it was reasonable to apply the label 'high-tech' to the work of Michael Hopkins. Today, however, with buildings such as the Glyndebourne Opera House and the New Parliamentary Building, Hopkins is perceived as a far more complex figure, perhaps even that most paradoxical of creatures - a high-tech historicist.

This monograph features all of Hopkins' major built works and projects together with essays by the book's author Colin Davies, the internationally respected critic and historian Kenneth Frampton, and the architect Patrick Hodgkinson.

About the author
Colin Davies is an architect, a former editor of the Architects' Journal and teaches History of Architecture at the University of North London.
Press quotes
'The superb photography brilliantly conveys the Escorial-like severity and gravitas of much of their work.' (The Times)
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