Michael Hopkins: 1976-2006

by Michael Hopkins, Maria Cristina Donati

Overview

The architecture of Michael Hopkins defies easy stylistic categorization. Often hybrid creations, the buildings juxtapose strongly contrasting elements, yet remain loyal to a strict code of truth to materials and honesty of expression. His architectural research can best be summed up in the expression “form follows material“: materials are employed investigating the deeper meanings of their nature renewed in new languages and forms which rewrite the grammar of architecture and contemporary building. This volume traces Hopkins's development from his early years in the mid-1970s to the present, featuring works such as The Lords Cricket Grounds, Braken House, Glyndebourne Opera House, the Interactive Museum, Jubilee Campus and the new English Parliament. With 30 buildings and projects featured in full-color photographs and complemented by architectural plans, sketches, drawings, and an informative essay.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788876246531
Publisher:	Skira
Publication date:	12/30/2006
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Maria Cristina Donati currently teaches the course of Theories of Architecture for the Florence Program of Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design.

Table of Contents

Tradition and Metamorphosis of Architecture in the Third Machine Age: phases of a work in progress     11
The Foundations of a New Tectonic     25
Hopkins House, London
Greene King Brewery Draught Beer
Cellars, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Patera Building System
Hopkins Studio, London
Schlumberger Cambridge Research Centre
Fleet Velmead Infants School, Hampshire
Solid State Logic, Begbroke
Technology and Context: Towards a Theory of Architecture     63
Mound Stand, Lord's Cricket Ground, London
Bracken House, London
David Mellor Cutlery Factory, Hathersage
David Mellor Offices and Showroom, London
Tottenham Court Road Station, London
New Square, Bedfont Lakes, London
Glyndebourne Opera House, Sussex
Architecture of Technology and Materials: Consolidation of a Philosophy     105
Workplaces     106
Inland Revenue Centre, Nottingham
Saga Group Headquarters, Folkestone
Portcullis House, New Parliamentary
Building, London
Westminster Underground Station, London
The Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building, London
GEK-Terna Headquarters, Athens, Greece
Halley VI, British Antarctic Survey
Shin-Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan
Recreation     150
Buckingham Palace Ticket Office, London
Goodwood Racecourse, Sussex
Hampshire County Cricket Club, Southampton
Inn the Park, St James' Park, London
Norwich Cathedral Refectory Centre, Norwich
Alnwick Garden Pavilion, Northumberland
"Utopia" Broughton Hall, Yorkshire
Culture     180
DynamicEarth, Edinburgh
Wildscreen@Bristol
The Forum, Norwich
Manchester Art Gallery
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Education     204
Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
National College for School Leadership, University of Nottingham
The Pilkington Laboratories, Sherborne School, Dorset
The National Tennis Centre, Roehampton, London
The New Science Building, Bryanston School, Blandford
Northern Arizona University Advance Research and Development Facility, Flagstaff, USA
The Kroon Building, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Chemistry Building, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Collegiate     232
Queen's Building, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Lady Sarah Cohen House, London
Sheltered Housing, Charterhouse, London
Haberdashers' Hall, London
Health Care     250
Evelina Children's Hospital, London
Ambulatory Cancer Care Centre, University College London Hospitals
The Sustainable City     261
Provincial Headquarter, Pisa
In conversation with Sir Michael Hopkins     273
Appendix     278