Basil Bramston Hooper

Sir Basil Bramston Hooper, ARIBA (17 April 1876–3 February 1960) was a New Zealand architect. He was born in Lahore, India on 17 April 1876.[1]

Hooper was one of Dunedin's leading architects in the arts and crafts movement, and many of the city's stately homes were designed by him. Hooper's houses revitalised domestic architecture in New Zealand prior to the First World War, and he also carried out commercial and ecclesiastical commissions.

In 1948 he retired having weathered the lean architectural years of the 1930s and the Second World War. He died at Waiuku on 3 February 1960, survived by a daughter and a son.

References

  1. ↑ Lochhead, Ian J. "Basil Bramston Hooper". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved December 2011.
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