Michael and Patty Hopkins took high-tech architecture to historical settings

We continue our high-tech architecture series with a profile of Michael and Patty Hopkins, who designed one of the movement's most pragmatic buildings – Hopkins House – and went on to develop historicist high-tech architecture.
High-tech architecture, a style that emerged in the UK in the late 1960s and saw the expression of structural elements, had many contradictions.
It often merged structural rationally with exaggerated details or combined the bespoke wit