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Across an a radically different sourcebook from those offered by other increasingly extensive range of buildings there are traits and contemporaries, beginning in Volume 1 with the practice’s seminal characteristics in how spaces are planned, in how sections inform projects, and continuing in Volume 2 with projects of truly global elevations, in how materials combine, in how corners turn and in how significance, such as Glyndebourne Opera House, Portcullis House structures define places, that share a distinctive family resemblance. and Westminster underground station. Supported by observation Since it began in 1976, Hopkins Architects has been led by founding and critical analysis from Colin Davies, Patrick Hodgkinson, Kenneth partner Sir Michael Hopkins, who traces back the genetic thread of the Frampton and Charles Jencks, these previous volumes traced the practice’s architecture to a number of key defining experiences. Initially architect’s development from schoolboy enthusiast to what Jencks working on two self-initiated domestic projects with wife, Patty, the described as ‘the architect to surpass’, illustrating along the way the rescue and restoration of their sixteenth-century timber-framed house broad range of influences, from Viollet-le-Duc to Buckminster Fuller, at Craftfield in Suffolk in the early 1960s introduced them to the realities that bridge the gap between the practice’s interest in the medieval and of construction and instilled within them the desire to produce buildings the Miesian. As these commentaries showed, it has been impossible that look the way they do because of the way they are built. This was to attribute a style or ‘-ism’ to the practice’s buildings, so it is only by followed by the radical innovation of a twentieth-century small-section taking a long view that we are able to frame Hopkins’ work, as an steel frame at the now seminal Hopkins House in Hampstead, which in entirely new pedigree in British modernity. It takes its place in a lineage turn led to Greene King, Patera, Broadley Terrace and Schlumberger. of design thinking that begins with the great British engineer Brunel After this came projects like Lord’s, where they went further still, not only and runs through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century work of learning about the technicalities of Victorian brickwork but also, more Joseph Paxton, Edwin Lutyens and Owen Williams, with Romanesque significantly, realising that character and ambience were just as and Gothic origins brought up to date in the spirit of the Functionalist significant as structure and detail, with the Mound Stand chiming with tradition identified by Eric de Maré’s photographs, published in the Lord’s main pavilion, expressing the sense of an English summer’s day Architectural Review. in brick, steel, glass and tensile fabric. This new monograph extends the commentary, reflecting on the Through this legacy Hopkins had derived an entirely new language third decade of the practice’s evolution and its current work, where we for late twentieth-century British modernism, which attracted a see the Hopkins practice transformed into a truly international, committed team of like-minded architects that included the five senior twenty-first-century business. It has stepped up to the challenges of partners he works with today, all of whom cite a shared interest in more competitive markets at home and abroad, more than doubling its materials (new and old), design (innovative and traditional) and place- portfolio of completed buildings and extending its reach to new regions making (urban and rural) as their reason for joining the firm.