Founding Director, Hodder+Partners
Stephen Hodder established his architectural practice in 1983, and in 1992 Hodder Associates won the Royal Fine Art Commission/ Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire.
In 1996 Hodder Associates, now Hodder+Partners, received the most important award in British Architecture for a single building, the inaugural RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture for the Centenary Building, University of Salford. The practice has now won over sixty major awards, including seventeen awards for the Welcome Building at RHS Garden Bridgewater.
Stephen was awarded an MBE for services to architecture in the Queen’s 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 a honorary fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire in 2013. He is currently Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture and a Governor at the Glasgow School of Art.
He was RIBA President 2013-15, and Chair of the Construction Industry Council 2019-2021.
In 2023, Stephen received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Manchester Society of Architects.
