Michael Hopkins

Sir Michael John Hopkins (7 May 1935 – 17 June 2023) was an English architect. The RIBA Royal Gold Medal-winning architect founded Hopkins Architects with his wife Patty and was widely regarded as among the greatest of contemporary British architectural figures. Michael, alongside Patty, was part of a select group of leading British architects who were regarded as the founders of the "High-Tech" architectural movement (the other four included Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and Terry Farrell). Life and career Hopkins was born in 1935 in Poole. His father, Gerald, was a builder and his mother, Barbara, decided at a young age that Hopkins would become an architect. Hopkins attended a public school in Sherborne. He studied architecture at the Bournemouth School of Art and worked with Basil Spence and Frederick Gibberd before, aged 23, enrolling at the Architectural Association in London. While studying at the Architectural Institute, Hopkins met Patty Wainwright (later Hopkins), who would go on to be his life long collaborator. The couple married in 1962.