Gareth hoskins biography

  • Gareth Dale Hoskins OBE was a Scottish architect.
  • Biography.
  • He died on 10 January following a heart attack while at a fencing match, himself an accomplished fencer.

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    Our Approach

    Through a culture of thoughtful design our buildings enhance lives, settings, and experiences – to us, this is what matters.

    Hoskins Architects was founded in Glasgow by the late Gareth Hoskins in 1998. Through a series of significant public competition wins, our team has gone from strength to strength, and in 2014 we expanded to open an office in Berlin. We are a group of people who are passionate and skilled at what we do; and we continue to embody Gareth's ethos for the practice: to demonstrate integrity and quality in all our work, and deliver great architecture that benefits the built environment in the UK, Germany and beyond.

    We believe that rewarding and worthy projects come from all sectors. We welcome challenging and aspiring projects of any scale, and actively drive them forward to completion. Our approach is defined not just by listening, but by truly understanding and developing the client’s vision as a whole. We then work together to find the right solut

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    Gareth Hoskins

    Scottish architect (1967–2016)

    Gareth Hoskins

    Hoskins, in Glasgow, September 2013

    Born(1967-04-15)15 April 1967

    Edinburgh

    Died9 January 2016(2016-01-09) (aged 48)

    Edinburgh

    NationalityScottish
    EducationGlasgow School of Art
    OccupationArchitect

    Gareth Dale HoskinsOBE (15 April 1967 – 9 January 2016) was a Scottish architect.

    Biography

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    Born in Edinburgh on 15 April 1967,[1][2] Hoskins attended George Watson’s College and the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art.[3][4] He joined Penoyre & Prasad in 1992 before starting his own firm in 1998.[5] In 2005 he was appointed to the Board of Architecture + Design Scotland[6] where he served as Scottish Healthcare Design mästare for 4 years from 2006.[7]

    Personal

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    Hoskins was married, had two children and lived in Helensburgh.[8] He had a heart att

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    Gareth Hoskins 1967- 2016

    Hoskins had an intuitive architectural intelligence rather than a theoretical one, a sixth sense about shape, use and materials that few have. He was a consummate synthesiser of ideas and methods, assimilated through a passion for, and curiosity about, architecture. His influences included the lyrical modernism exemplified bygd Alvar Aalto, and a formally more abstract version of the humane and layered architecture of Ted Cullinan’s work, with its roots in Arts & Crafts. He also shared the contemporary fascination with plan and procession, mixing conceptions of building and city; and that enabled him to produce some fine mästare plans.

    In 1998 he returned to Glasgow to set up Gareth Hoskins Architects (GHA) in Glasgow, and within a year had five people working on three projects won through competition. One was the Lighthouse Mackintosh galleri, which Deyan Sudjic (director of Glasgow: UK City of Architecture & Design 1999) described as ‘p