June 20, 2023
Michael Hopkins, one of the pioneers of British High Tech Architecture
Michael Hopkins, one of the pioneers of British High Tech architecture has passed away at 88, leaving a legacy of 
design that set the stage for subsequent modernism at a time when American architecture and design became distracted by Robert Venturi and his writings.
design that set the stage for subsequent modernism at a time when American architecture and design became distracted by Robert Venturi and his writings.
His design of the Westminster Underground Tube Station for example will always be one of our favorite projects and an inspiration of how design, beauty and function can be expressed by revealing authentic structure as a visual storyteller. His work was at once somber yet expressive, experimental and joyful.
Finding the beauty in the mundane has always been a hallmark of Hi Tech, creating details and a visual understanding of how things work and go together, as poetry.
We hope that as a new generation of architects and designers work to find balance in sustainability, adaptive reuse and structural expression, they discover and study the work of Michael Hopkins, and a springboard to what is yet to be inventive, hopeful and still possible in our industry.
