Stephen Hodder

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name = Stephen Hodder
nationality = United Kingdom
birth_date = 1956
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significant_buildings = Centenary Building
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awards = Stirling Prize (1996)|

Stephen Hodder (born 1956) is an English architect who RIBA's Stirling Prize in 1996. He is also a partner at his own practice Hodder Associates which was founded in 1992.

Background

Hodder graduated from Manchester University in 1982 and joined BDP but left after a year and set his own firm up after he was offered a project offered by a family member.

One of his first jobs came after he won a competition to build Lytham St Annes Station and he also joined the teaching staff at the Manchester School of Architecture which supplemented his income. [http://www.buildingsrus.co.uk/year_6/management/hodder/management_7.htm]

Awards

Hodder won the "Royal Fine Art Commission/Sunday Times Building of the Year Award" for his design of Colne Swimming pool in Lancashire in the first year that his practice opened.

In 1995, Hodder Associates won the Grand Prize at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and in 1996 he was awarded the RIBA Stirling Prize for the Centenary Building, University of Salford.

Stephen Hodder was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Arts by Manchester Metropolitan University in 2006 in recognition of his distinguished contribution to architecture locally, nationally and internationally.

External links

* [http://www.mmu.ac.uk/graduation/honorands/2006 Manchester Metropolitan University's Honorands]
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