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Daryl Sanders Jackson AO (7 February 1937 – 21 February 2026) was an Australian architect, who designed alone or with partners numerous notable large scale projects across Australia and internationally, ranging from schools and colleges to sports facilities, office blocks, hospital wings and residential complexes. The designs included stylistic influences from Brutalism and High Tech to Postmodernism and Deconstructivism, and the firm as won numerous awards since in the 1970s. Jackson was also an educator as an associate professor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University.
Jackson was born on 7 February 1937 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia, and was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne. He completed a diploma in architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), then moved to the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1959. After working with architects in Melbourne, Sydney, he married his wife Kaye and they spent some years living overseas. Daryl worked in London for Chamberlin Powell & Bonn, best known for the Brutalist landmark of the Barbican Centre, and in the United States for Paul Rudolph, a seminal figure in the development of Brutalism and 'megastructures'.
He returned to Melbourne in 1964, and established his first practice, with fellow Melbourne University graduate Evan Walker. Walker then left for Canada in 1965, where he lived and worked until 1969. The Jackson Walker office was in a terrace in East Melbourne with other architects, including Kevin Borland, sharing staff and expertise. In about 1966 Borland collaborated with Jackson on is first notable project, the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, which opened in 1969. The pool was the seminal example of the Victorian version of the Brutalist style, with bare concrete, concrete block walls, sculptural forms and directed movement through the building via ramps and stairs, and is now on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Though a young practice, Jackson Walker then worked principally on large scale projects. One early area of success was in schools, designing Lauriston Girls School Special Studies Building (1969), a bold red brick design wrapping around a courtyard, which won the RAIA (Vic) Bronze Medal in 1970. This was followed by Princes Hill High School (1972) in bold Brutalist concrete style, which also won the Bronze Medal, and the even bolder form of the RAW Woodgate Building at MLC the next year, which won a Citation. In 1969 Jackson Walker were one of a number of noted architects tasked with designing houses for the new Elliston Estate developed by Merchant Builders, a planned subdivision with common gardens without fences and similarly styled low slung brick and timber designs.
Other notable projects include two very bold sculptural bare concrete Brutalist designs, the YMCA in Suva, Fiji (1973), and the Canberra School of Music (1976, now Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music). The Music School was the first of many projects that followed in Canberra. Another landmark early brick Brutalist project was the City Edge Housing development (1971-4) in South Melbourne, a set of multi-level apartments accessed via ramps and stairs along a pedestrian internal walkway, set above the carpark. The State Bank College, also in rural Baxter (1977), used similar blocky forms but on a smaller scale and in concrete block, with residential units stepped in plan, and down the slope. In contrast to these Brutalist designs, the St Pauls School, Baxter (1974–79), now Woodleigh School Senior campus, was a collection of timber structures in a bush setting.
In the 1970s Jackson designed a few residential projects in the rough-hewn unpainted timber type then gaining popularity. One was his own holiday house in Shoreham on the Mornington Peninsula, a design of many levels and layers, and another a house for the Abrahams family on the beachfront at Brighton (1979). Both designs featured the use of timber slat pergolas/verandahs providing shade.
Evan Walker left the firm in 1978 in order to pursue a political career, becoming Minister for Planning in the early 1980s.
After 1980 the work of the firm took on new directions, including expressed steel structure for large-span projects, and a more eclectic approach to composition, influenced by the new trends of Postmodernism.
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Daryl Jackson
Daryl Sanders Jackson AO (7 February 1937 – 21 February 2026) was an Australian architect, who designed alone or with partners numerous notable large scale projects across Australia and internationally, ranging from schools and colleges to sports facilities, office blocks, hospital wings and residential complexes. The designs included stylistic influences from Brutalism and High Tech to Postmodernism and Deconstructivism, and the firm as won numerous awards since in the 1970s. Jackson was also an educator as an associate professor at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University.
Jackson was born on 7 February 1937 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia, and was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne. He completed a diploma in architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), then moved to the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1959. After working with architects in Melbourne, Sydney, he married his wife Kaye and they spent some years living overseas. Daryl worked in London for Chamberlin Powell & Bonn, best known for the Brutalist landmark of the Barbican Centre, and in the United States for Paul Rudolph, a seminal figure in the development of Brutalism and 'megastructures'.
He returned to Melbourne in 1964, and established his first practice, with fellow Melbourne University graduate Evan Walker. Walker then left for Canada in 1965, where he lived and worked until 1969. The Jackson Walker office was in a terrace in East Melbourne with other architects, including Kevin Borland, sharing staff and expertise. In about 1966 Borland collaborated with Jackson on is first notable project, the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, which opened in 1969. The pool was the seminal example of the Victorian version of the Brutalist style, with bare concrete, concrete block walls, sculptural forms and directed movement through the building via ramps and stairs, and is now on the Victorian Heritage Register.
Though a young practice, Jackson Walker then worked principally on large scale projects. One early area of success was in schools, designing Lauriston Girls School Special Studies Building (1969), a bold red brick design wrapping around a courtyard, which won the RAIA (Vic) Bronze Medal in 1970. This was followed by Princes Hill High School (1972) in bold Brutalist concrete style, which also won the Bronze Medal, and the even bolder form of the RAW Woodgate Building at MLC the next year, which won a Citation. In 1969 Jackson Walker were one of a number of noted architects tasked with designing houses for the new Elliston Estate developed by Merchant Builders, a planned subdivision with common gardens without fences and similarly styled low slung brick and timber designs.
Other notable projects include two very bold sculptural bare concrete Brutalist designs, the YMCA in Suva, Fiji (1973), and the Canberra School of Music (1976, now Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music). The Music School was the first of many projects that followed in Canberra. Another landmark early brick Brutalist project was the City Edge Housing development (1971-4) in South Melbourne, a set of multi-level apartments accessed via ramps and stairs along a pedestrian internal walkway, set above the carpark. The State Bank College, also in rural Baxter (1977), used similar blocky forms but on a smaller scale and in concrete block, with residential units stepped in plan, and down the slope. In contrast to these Brutalist designs, the St Pauls School, Baxter (1974–79), now Woodleigh School Senior campus, was a collection of timber structures in a bush setting.
In the 1970s Jackson designed a few residential projects in the rough-hewn unpainted timber type then gaining popularity. One was his own holiday house in Shoreham on the Mornington Peninsula, a design of many levels and layers, and another a house for the Abrahams family on the beachfront at Brighton (1979). Both designs featured the use of timber slat pergolas/verandahs providing shade.
Evan Walker left the firm in 1978 in order to pursue a political career, becoming Minister for Planning in the early 1980s.
After 1980 the work of the firm took on new directions, including expressed steel structure for large-span projects, and a more eclectic approach to composition, influenced by the new trends of Postmodernism.
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