Patrick Hodgkinson (8 March 1930 – 21 February 2016) was a
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architect
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, best known for his design of
London's Brunswick Centre
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Biography
Hodgkinson was born in
Putney, London
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on 8 March 1930. His father, Geoffrey Walter Hodgkinson was a farmer and car sale company manager and his mother was Patricia Florence Nena Vere, née Denning.
As a child he lived at
Little Blakenham
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,
Suffolk
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and
Aldeby, Norfolk. After leaving Orwell Park preparatory school, he went to
Charterhouse in Godalming, Surrey then
Norwich School of Art
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.
For Hodgkinson's National Service he joined the Royal Navy.
In 1950 he began his studies at the Architectural Association school in London and began working for Neville Ward & Felix Samuely.
[
In 1957, Hodgkinson joined ]Leslie Martin
Sir John Leslie Martin (17 August 1908, in Manchester – 28 July 2000) was an English architect, and a leading advocate of the International Style. Martin's most famous building is the Royal Festival Hall. His work was especially influenced ...
and was given the project of designing the Foundling Estate, Bloomsbury in 1964 and Gonville & Caius’s Harvey Court hall of residence.
Hodgkinson designed the Brunswick Centre
The Brunswick Centre is a grade II listed residential and shopping centre in Bloomsbury, London, England. It is located between Brunswick Square and Russell Square and is administratively in the London Borough of Camden.
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, a residential and commercial building in Bloomsbury, London
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On 17 December 1955 he had his first marriage to fellow student, Anna Margaret Tomlinson and they had two children together. His second marriage was to Jacqueline Metcalf on 27 April 1973 and they also had two children together before they separated some time later. On 21 February 2016, Hodgkinson died as a result of bronchopneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at St Teresa's nursing home in Corston, Bath.][
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1930 births
2016 deaths
Architects from London