Hindsight | Design in the making

‘The house was very important’: Patty Hopkins looks back

Luck, confident clients, amazing partners and the joy of doing practical things

James Gorst: I feel successful creatively, and that’s the key thing

Excitement, dreams, disappointment and personal integrity

Ben van Berkel: 'Sometimes the breakthrough isn't a building, but a way of working'

UNStudio founder decided to be an architect 'on the spot' on seeing the Katsura Imperial Villa in Japan aged 21

How a garage, a carpet and living on a bus helped shape Eric Parry

Unexpected details show a different route to success

Hindsight: Jack Pringle – ‘We were brave enough to tell clients how they could work better’

The co-founder of Pringle Brandon and former RIBA president looks back on his career

Hindsight: Tim Ronalds gets thoughtful about an all-engrossing vocation

‘One of the best aspects is collaborating with young architects who joined the practice’

Hindsight: Robert Adam - 'The minute we got into competitions, we’d know we had no chance'

Reflections on a life spent working to make the traditional an accepted type of architecture

Hindsight: Stephen Hodder on the unquenchable pursuit of design excellence

From Colne swimming pool to the Welcome Building at RHS Bridgewater, the Hodder Associates founder looks back - and forward

Hindsight: Laurie Chetwood on pushing boundaries and the importance of art in architecture

The Chetwoods founder looks back on his career, from the Sainsbury’s Millennium Store to a current dream project

Hindsight: Bennetts Associates: 'We certainly didn’t have parents who wanted a house designing'

Denise and Rab Bennetts: from precarious beginnings to the projects they are most proud of

Hindsight: Ken Yeang on blazing a trail for ecological design

Ken Yeang talks about his five-decade-long career, pioneering the design of green buildings

‘We raided history, the modern and the vernacular and mixed them up’

Piers Gough on a lifetime of getting emotion and drama into architecture

Dixon Jones

Hindsight: Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones on why both their mothers were right

Dixon Jones’ founders on their achievements, ups and downs, and succession planning

Julian Harrap: I’m delighted I adopted architecture every day I wake up

Julian Harrap on why he still loves being an architect

Quinlan Terry: a classicist in the modern world

Tenacious classical architect says he is still learning from Palladio

Allies and Morrison on 40 years of sitting side by side

But who was once whose assistant?

Eva Jiricna: ‘There is always one more step left to reach perfection’

The impact of Soviet action, the English seaside and many people…

Hindsight: Sunand Prasad, from dams in the mud to RIBA president

Penoyre & Prasad co-founder looks back at his career

Hindsight: Julia Barfield on principles and practice

Dream projects, sustainable design, finance and treasure

Kate Macintosh: It was the best time for my ideas of what the goals of architecture should be

Kate Macintosh on social improvement and politics in architecture

Hindsight: ‘I’m the luckiest person’: Chris Wilkinson looks back at his career

Wilkinson Eyre co-founder on art, architecture, high-tech and incredible influences

Hindsight: Terry Farrell on what he’s learnt in 50 years as an architect

One eminent practitioner’s life in architecture

Gareth Hoskins 1967- 2016

'Natural architect' and promoter of architecture for the public good