{{Short description|British architect}} '''Patrick Hodgkinson''' (8 March 1930 – 21 February 2016) was a British architect, best known for his design of London's Brunswick Centre.
==Biography== [[File:Brunswick_Centre_(4136275375).jpg|thumb|right|Brunswick Centre, Hodgkinson's best known work]] Hodgkinson was born in Putney, London 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.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite book |last1=Swenarton |first1=Mark |title=Hodgkinson, Patrick Geoffrey (1930–2016) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-111145 |website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |accessdate=8 May 2020 |date=9 January 2020|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.111145 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/12183677/Patrick-Hodgkinson-architect-obituary.html |title=Patrick Hodgkinson, architect - obituary |publisher=Telegraph |date=2016-03-04 |accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref>
As a child he lived at Little Blakenham, Suffolk and Aldeby, Norfolk. After leaving Orwell Park preparatory school, he went to Charterhouse in Godalming, Surrey then Norwich School of Art.<ref>{{cite news|author=Mark Swenarton |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/mar/08/patrick-hodgkinson-obituary |title=Patrick Hodgkinson obituary | Art and design |work=The Guardian |date= 8 March 2016|accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref>
For Hodgkinson's National Service he joined the Royal Navy.<ref name="architectsjournal">{{cite web|url=https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/brunswick-centre-architect-patrick-hodgkinson-dies/10003211.article|title=Brunswick Centre architect Patrick Hodgkinson dies | News|website=Architects Journal|date=23 February 2016 |accessdate=2017-07-31}}</ref> In 1950 he began his studies at the Architectural Association school in London and began working for Neville Ward & Felix Samuely.<ref name=ODNB/>
In 1957, Hodgkinson joined Leslie Martin and was given the project of designing the Foundling Estate, Bloomsbury in 1964 and Gonville & Caius’s Harvey Court hall of residence.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Goulcher|first1=Matthew|date=24 February 2016|url=http://www.levittbernstein.co.uk/now/tribute-to-patrick-hodgkinson/ |title=Tribute to Patrick Hodgkinson — Levitt Bernstein |publisher=Levittbernstein.co.uk |accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/patrickhodgkinson |title=Death of Harvey Court architect Patrick Hodgkinson (1930 – 2016) | Gonville & Caius |publisher=Cai.cam.ac.uk |date=2016-02-24 |accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref>
Hodgkinson designed the Brunswick Centre, a residential and commercial building in Bloomsbury, London<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2173 |title=AJBL - Patrick Hodgkinson |publisher=Ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2017-03-30}}</ref> He was awarded a chair at Bath University, which he retired from in 1995.<ref name=ODNB/>
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.<ref name=ODNB/>
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