Owen Hopkins

  • Park Hill Estate, Sheffield
    Opinion

    Gentrification may be brutalism’s best hope

    2017-05-12T08:00:00

    What’s happening at the Balfron has infuriated many but don’t be too quick to criticise, cautions Owen Hopkins. The alternative for many brutalist gems is oblivion

  • Sonnenhof, Jena, Germany, 2015 by J. Mayer H.
    Opinion

    Architecture and freedom – a contested connection

    2015-09-17T08:00:00

    With architectural production becoming ever more beholden to the needs of capital and the building industry, the Royal Academy’s Owen Hopkins introduces a season of events that explores what freedom might mean for architects – and architecture – now and in the future

  • MyHouse by Mae - illustration for Royal Academy exhibition and talk
    Opinion

    How to tackle the housing crisis - four architects' visions

    2015-04-09T07:00:00

    Against the backdrop of the UK’s ever tightening housing crisis – a key issue in the general election campaign – the Royal Academy has been running a season of debates, talks and an exhibition examining housing’s future. Owen Hopkins, the season’s curator, explains