Stephen Hodder
Stephen R Hodder MBE
BA(Hons), BArch(Dist) DArts RIBA FRSA
Stephen Hodder was educated at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester, where he gained a Distinction in the Bachelor of Architecture degree. Following University he joined Building Design Partnership in 1981 and became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1982.
He has been in practice since 1983 and in 1992 formed Hodder Associates which won the Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire later that year. Shortly afterwards he won a limited competition to extend Arne Jacobsen’s Grade I Listed St Catherine’s College in Oxford and established a client relationship which has now extended for some 15 years.
In 1996 Hodder Associates received the most important award in British Architecture for a single building, the inaugural Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. The Practice has now won over thirty major awards, the most recent being an RIBA Award for St Catherine’s College Phase II in 2006.
The practice has realised significant projects in the leisure, cultural, residential, and commercial sectors, together with the higher education sector. Current UK projects include office buildings at 3 St Paul’s Place, Sheffield, for CTP St James and 4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester for Argent Estates, St Clare’s College, Oxford, Tynemouth Station and new build elements of a £150m masterplan in Wigan for Maryland Securities.
Professionally, he has been President of the Manchester Society of Architects, RIBA North West Region Chairman, and a member of the RIBA Awards Committee. He currently chairs the Professional Advisory Board at the Manchester School of Architecture, is a Nationally Elected Member of the RIBA Council, serving on the Education Committee, and was recently appointed to CABE’s Design Review Panel and Places Matter! Design Review Panel.
Stephen has written and lectured widely, has been a visiting examiner at a number of schools of architecture and was until recently the visiting professor at the Birmingham School of Architecture. He regularly acts as an assessor for architectural competitions and awards systems.
Stephen Hodder was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queens Birthday Honours List, 1998.
He received an honorary doctorate in 2006 from the Manchester Metropolitan University for his regional, national and international contribution to architecture and won the Roses Design Award of ‘Architect of the Year’ in the same year.