Dean Hawkes

Dean Hawkes is a British architect and award-winning academic. Born in Rochdale, Lancashire, in 1938. He studied at Regional College of Art, Manchester (Manchester School of Art) and Clare College, University of Cambridge. His career has combined practice, teaching and research:

From 1965 – 1995 he taught and researched at the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University, where he was a founder member and, later, Director of the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies. He held the Chair of Architectural Design at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University from 1995 – 2002. He has held visiting professorships at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore, the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, the Department of Architecture, Huddersfield University and the Leicester School of Architecture, De Montfort University. He is emeritus professor at Cardiff University and an emeritus fellow of Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

Dean Hawkes was in practice between 1982 and 1994 with Stephen Greenberg as Greenberg and Hawkes. Projects were widely published and won a number of RIBA Architecture Awards. They were exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London and at the Venice Biennale.

He has published numerous books and essays on architecture and contributed to many journals, including the Architects' Journal and the Architectural Review. In December 2016 Dean Hawkes was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Westminster, London.

Key Publications

D. Hawkes, J. Owers The Architecture of Energy, Longman, London. Dean Hawkes (1986) Modern Country Homes in England, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Paperback edition, (2011). Dean Hawkes The Environmental Tradition, Spon Press, London. Dean Hawkes, Jane McDonald, and Koen Steemers, The Selective Environment: An Approach to Environmentally Responsive Architecture, Taylor & Francis, London. D. Hawkes, Arup Partnership, W. Forster Energy Efficient Buildings: Architecture, Engineering, and Environment, W. W. Norton & Company, London. Dean Hawkes The Environmental Imagination, Spon Press, London. Dean Hawkes (2012) Architecture and Climate, Routledge, London. Dean Hawkes (2019) The Environmental Imagination, 2nd Edition, Routledge, London. Dean Hawkes (2021) The Architect and the Academy, Routledge, London.

Key Buildings House and Studio, Doughty Mews, Bloomsbury, London. House, Gisborne Road, Cambridge. House, Dottery, Dorset. Library, Maldon, Essex. Principal's Lodge, Newnham College, Cambridge.