HODDER + PARTNERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Newly Incorporated Hodder Partners
Claire was Project Architect for Medeva's £25 million office, production and warehouse facility. Moving to Aedas in 2000 as an Associate Claire worked on various transport and education projects. During this time Claire was Project Architect for GMPTE's £3 million Hyde Bus Station and was also involved in the Manchester Metrolink Phase 3 project and the master plan for the expansion of Manchester Airport to cater for a predicted doubling of annual passenger numbers to 2015.
Claire joined Hodder Associates in 2004 and in 2008 Claire became Managing Director of the newly incorporated Hodder+Partners.
Howard joined Hodder + Partners in 2022 having completed his architecture education at Leeds Beckett University. During his MArch degree, Howard's design studio projects were nominated for various awards, including the Yorkshire RIBA Student Awards, AJ Sustainable Student Prize and the RIBA Silver Medal.
Having moved to Leeds for University and after working in architectural practice for 7 years Howard decided to move back to Manchester to be closer to family and work with Hodder + Partners. His has previously worked on a large variety of residential typologies across Yorkshire ranging from bespoke wheelchair bungalows to large scale master plans and extra care development.
Since being with the practice Howard has worked as part of the delivery team for Phase 1 of the St Michael's development. And has more recently been leading the residential development at Belmont House, which incorporated the rebuild and conversion of a Grade II listed building with Cheadle Village.
Matt was also project leader for Chapel Street Hotel in Salford which is a £13m, 21 storey. 208 bed hotel as part of the Greengate masterplan. Matt was also lead designer for a £200m mixed use development in Shenzhen, China which included a 66 storey office and a 250 bedroom hotel.
Nick joined Hodder + Partners in August 2014 after graduating with Distinction from the MArch course at Leeds School of Architecture. Whilst at university Nick's thesis project was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal. Since his arrival at Hodder + Partners, Nick has worked on large residential projects in Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds as well as student accommodation schemes in London, Oxford and Newcastle and a competition winning scheme for the Liverpool waterfront. Nick has been part of a small team leading the construction of the Duncan House project in Stratford, London, a mixed use scheme of 511 student bedrooms, 44 residential apartments and a higher education facility. Prior to joining Hodder+ Partners, Nick worked at Wilson Mason and Partners in Samlesbury where he worked on the award winning Manchester Cancer Research Centre, as well as a range of academic and accommodation projects across the Lancaster University Campus. Nick was most recently the delivery architect for the award winning RHS Bridgewater Project in Worsley, having been involved in the early design and competition stages. Currently Nick is leading on a number of high profile build to rent schemes across the country.
Richard joined Hodder + Partners in 2017 having achieved a distinction in his Masters of Architecture at Manchester School of Architecture. Richard moved to Manchester having been an undergraduate in Nottingham and working in London. He joined Hodder+Partners, having chosen to put down roots after falling in love with Greater Manchester, grateful to have the opportunity to work within the area. Since being with the practice Richard has been working with the team producing a framework and masterplan for the regeneration of the Bedminster area of Bristol City Centre. This has then led to the successful planning approval of a build to rent residential scheme and a new multi-storey car park adjacent to Little Paradise and Malago Road. The residential scheme provides over 300 apartments complete with modern resident facilities including a lounge, street facing terraces and a resident's gym. Richard has been leading on the submitted application for a further 3 buildings within the master plan delivering 339 apartments around a regenerated public green. With Hodder + Partners Richard has assisted in successfully achieving planning for St Michael's - a mixed use development on the site of the former police station and synagogue, adjacent to Albert Square and the historic core. Working within the wider team, this involved the use of BIM to provide the drawings for the application as well as the production of a model to co-ordinate with other disciplines involved in the project. He now forms part of the design team bringing Phase 2 of the project forward.
Stephen Hodder was educated at the School of Architecture, University of Manchester, where he gained a Distinction in the Bachelor of Architecture degree. Following University, he joined Building Design Partnership in 1981 and became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1982.
He has been in practice since 1983 and in 1992 formed Hodder Associates which won the Royal Fine Art Commission/ Sunday Times Building of the Year Award for Colne Swimming Pool in Lancashire later that year.
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.
He regularly acts as an assessor for architectural competitions and awards, most recently for the RAIC International Prize and sits on the Design Review Panel for Places Matter!
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 and won the Roses Design Award of ‘Architect of the Year' in the same year.
Stephen has written and lectured widely, has been a visiting examiner at a number of schools of architecture and visiting Professor at the Birmingham School of Architecture, the Belfast School of Architecture and the University of Salford, School of the Built Environment. He is Professor of Architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture.
He was RIBA President 2013-15, having previously been Vice President Membership, Nations and Regions and Chair of the Construction Industry Council 2019-2021.
In 2023, Stephen received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Manchester Society of Architects.
Stephen's responsibility within the practice is primarily design leadership, client interface and development but brings forty years of experience to project delivery.