Career
With a strong interest in both engineering and industrial design, Hunt was a major player in creating the High Technical style of Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. He formed Anthony Hunt associates in 1962. He worked with Rogers and Foster on Reliance Controls building in Swindon (1966) which was the first building of the High Technical architecture style.
He was also a structural engineer on the Waterloo International railway station in London (1993).
Anthony Hunt was the eldest child of a solicitor"s clerk in Streatham Hill in London. After leaving Salesian College at 16 he attended Northampton Polytechnic 1947 - 1948, but didn"t complete the course.
He then attended Westminster Technical College in London and studied civil engineering on a day release course. He first worked for Wheeler & Jupp, a small civil engineering firm in London, and later obtained a professional qualification in structural engineering.
lieutenant was with FJ Samuely & Partners that Hunt really developed his passion for structural engineering, working on projects such as Eero Saarinen"s American Embassy in London.
Following a spell working for Terence Conran and for Hancock Associates, Hunt founded Anthony Hunt Associates in 1962. He worked extensively with a new generation of British Architects, including Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, Michael Hopkins and Nicholas Grimshaw and played a large role in developing the lightweight, prefabricated style of British architecture known as High Technology
