(b London, 8 March 1930). English architect and teacher. He played an important role in English architecture from the late 1950s, first as a pioneer in housing design and subsequently as a teacher. He studied (1950–56) at the Architectural Association School, London, spending a year of this studentship in the office of Alvar Aalto. Subsequently he worked for the engineers F. J. Samuely and Partners in London, before joining the office of Sir Leslie Martin in Cambridge in 1957–63. Here he developed ideas for low-rise, high-density housing that became instrumental over the following decade in shifting housing policy away from point block solutions based, often inaccurately, on the thinking of Le Corbusier, and towards a more humane, user-oriented form. In 1958–62, within the Martin studio, he designed the renowned Harvey Court student accommodation block for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and in 1960–62 he was responsible for the basis of the St Cross Library buildings at Oxford. Hodgkinson’s best-known work, however, is the Brunswick Centre (1959–72) for part of the old Foundling Hospital Estate in Bloomsbury, London. Here he developed a partially inverted stepped section, incorporating shops and commercial usage at ground level, with well-oriented flats above, all of which have balcony space. The scheme was generally acclaimed as a breakthrough in post-war English housing. Hodgkinson remained in independent practice with projects and buildings in Cambridge, Oxford and Bath, before becoming Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Bath in 1990.

• Hodgkinson, Patrick
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