British structural engineer who collaborated with the leading architects of the High-Tech architecture movement — including the Centre Pompidou (with Rogers and Piano) and many Hopkins and Grimshaw projects.
Structural engineering as architectural collaboration: Hunt's contribution is demonstrating that structural engineers can be creative collaborators rather than mere calculators for architects' visions. His work on the Centre Pompidou (the visible structural system as the building's primary aesthetic element), the Inmos Microprocessor Factory, and Patera (a flexible building system) are cases where engineering innovation drove architectural possibility. Part of the generation that established structural engineering as an intellectually serious collaborative discipline.
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