Hodgetts + Fung, also known as HplusF, is an interdisciplinary design studio based in Culver City, California specializing in architectural design, advanced material fabrication, historical restorations, and exhibition design and is led by principals Craig Hodgetts and Hsinming Fung.
Biography
In 1980, Ming Fung and Craig Hodgetts were part of a loose affiliation of Los Angeles architects known as the L.A. Ten.[1]Hodgetts + Fung was founded in 1984 by Craig Hodgetts and Hsinming Fung. HplusF is a studio made up of architects and designers with special expertise in the design of unique places for learning, cultural events, and civic functions. These qualities are most prominent in the 1993 Temporary Library at
UCLA,[2] as well as the recently completed Wildbeast Pavilion at
California Institute of the Arts, for which a folded steel cantilever provides an acoustically sophisticated setting for musical performance. The resulting integration of form and function reflects a process which is sensitive to abstract qualities as well as real-world constraints.[3]Hodgetts + Fung is also renowned for their renovation work on iconic Los Angeles structures like the design and construction of the new
Hollywood Bowl,[4] and the renovation of the
Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.[5]
Principals
Craig Hodgetts attended
Oberlin College,
San Francisco State College, and
University of California, Berkeley. He received his Master of Architecture from
Yale School of Art and Architecture in 1966. Prior to Hodgetts + Fung, Craig Hodgetts' professional affiliations include working with the famed British architect
Sir James Stirling and was the principal and co-founder of Studio Works with Robert Mangurian from 1968 - 1983.[6] Craig holds two U.S. patents: one for the Building Blocks prefabricated modular classroom for the
LAUSD, and one patent for LINC, a prefabricated, kit-of-parts housing system.[7] Craig Hodgetts was one of the founding deans at
California Institute of the Arts for the College of Design in 1969,[8] has held visiting professorships at
Yale,
MIT, and he currently is a tenured professor of architecture at
University of California, Los Angeles School of Architecture and Urban Design.[9] In 2006, he won the Gold Medal Award from the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles.[10] He is currently teaching the UCLA SUPRASTUDIO focused on developing
Elon Musk's
Hyperloop concept, a pneumatic tube transporting riders from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.[11]
Hsinming Fung received her Master of Architecture from University of California, Los Angeles in 1980. From 2002 - 2010 she served as the Director of Graduate Programs at the
Southern California Institute of Architecture and in 2011 she became the Director of Academic Affairs.[12] From 1999 to 2002 she was the Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design,
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She has held visiting professorships at
Yale,
MIT, and The Royal Academy of Coppenhagen. Hsinming Fung won the Rome Prize Advanced Fellowship in Design Art in 1991 and is a Fellow of the
American Academy in Rome. In 1992 she won the
Graham Foundation Grant for Research and Travel. She has also served as a National Peer for the
General Services Administration in Washington, D.C., and in 2004 served on the
National Endowment of the Arts Council.[13] In 2006, she won the Gold Medal Award from the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles.[14] Hsinming Fung has also served on the executive board of the
American Institute of Architects and currently serves on the board of the PLACES Journal.[15] Hsinming Fung served as the President (2014–15) of the
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.[16]
Hodgetts + Fung : Series of Contemporary Architects Studio Report in the United States, China Architecture & Building Press, edited by Bruce Q. Lan, 2005.
Publications
LA [TEN]: Interviews on Los Angeles Architecture 1970s – 1990s,Lars Muller Publishers, Stephen Phillips, 2013.
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990,Getty Publications, Wim de Wit and Christopher James Alexander, 2013.
A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rizzoli International Publications, Christopher Mount, Inc. 2013.
A Confederacy of Heretics,J. Paul Getty Museum, Todd Gannon and Ewan Branda, 2013.
^Ames, David L. "Reconsidering the Guidelines for Design of Additions to Historic Buildings." In Design & Historic Preservation: The Challenge of Compatibility : Held at Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, March 14–16, 2002. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009.