Ten years ago it was reasonable to apply the label High-Tech to the work of Michael Hopkins. He was one of a small group of British architects, including Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Nicholas Grimshaw, who had developed an easily recognisable style based on the idea that modern buildings should be assembled from factory made components. They saw their architecture as a branch of industrial technology and they loved to borrow images and techniques from industries other than the building industry - from transport, communication, oil exploration, flight and space travel. Now, however, this book reassesses Hopkins as a far more complex figure, perhaps even that most paradoxical of creatures, a High-Tech historicist.
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A really great contemporary architect,
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Hopkins' work is a joy to behold. He combines all the skills of a truly contemporary architect with an interest in new technologies and materials as well as a deep knowledge and appreciation of traditional construction and history. His practice has produced some powerful contextual work such as the Parliament Building in London, the Inland Revenue Buildings in Nottingham as well as amazingly elegant work like the Earth Centre in Edinburgh and the Schlumberger buildings in Cambridge.The work is timeless. The book is a beautiful compendium of projects and is lavishly illustrated as well as having some interesting essays by Colin Davies as a well as an interview with Michael Hopkins himself.
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