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She was born Patricia Ann Wainwright in 1942, the daughter of Denys Wainwight.
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Patty Hopkins
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After considering a career in science, she opted to take the entrance exam to enrol at London"s Architectural Association, in 1959 becoming one of five women out of 60 students. After graduating from the Architectural Association, Hopkins set up her own practice. The house had transparent glass walls and an exposed steel frame with a lack of internal walls.
Together they continued to create buildings using innovative new materials, for example using lightweight fabric for the Mound Stand at Lords Cricket Ground (1987).
In 1994 Patty and Michael Hopkins were jointly awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects (Royal Institute of British Architects) Royal Gold Medal for Architecture, with the medal citation saying "What best characterises the work of Michael and Patricia Hopkins is an equal appeal to ordinary people and to architects." Patty Hopkins had a major role in the new Glyndebourne Opera House project, completed the same year. She became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland (Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor) in 1996 and the American Institute of Architects (American Institute of Architects) in 1997.
She gave the keynote speech to the Women in Architecture luncheon at the Langham Hotel in 2014. On her work as a woman architect Hopkins said in 2011 "When I was younger, older men would be rather patronising.
You still find certain clients uncomfortable with women architects, but I can"t say it exercises medical
I"m not a feminist. I"m an architect, trying to concentrate on my work."
In 2014 the British Broadcasting Corporation was criticized when it allegedly removed Patty Hopkins from a photograph used as an illustration in the third programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation"s series The Brits Who Built the Modern World. The British Broadcasting Corporation were accused of ignoring women architects, though the British Broadcasting Corporation responded by saying they had met with Patty Hopkins to agree on her level of involvement.
The photo had been edited by the photographer.
All six architects were the subject of the associated Royal Institute of British Architects exhibition, also called The Brits Who Built the Modern World.
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