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Daryl Sanders Jackson AO (born 7 February 1937, in Clunes, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian architect, and the owner of an international architecture firm, Jackson Architecture. Jackson also became the Associate Professor of the University of Melbourne and Deakin University.
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Personal life
Jackson was educated at Wesley College in Melbourne and he graduated from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology[1] and the University of Melbourne with Diploma of Architecture.[2] Jackson established his first practice with Evan Walker in 1965. Jackson Architecture Pty Ltd, located in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, London, Hanoi, Vietnam and China, has completed an impressively large catalogue of projects, including university and college facilities, stadiums, commercial offices, art galleries, and industrial structures. Some of his projects include the Museum of Immigration, Melbourne and the County Court of Victoria.
Jackson's considerable teaching, writing and lecturing has had a significant influence on the course of Australian architectural development. He taught architecture at RMIT and written a regular column on housing for “The Age” in 1966 to 1999. Jackson has also been principle lecturer at RAIA conventions and was a visiting professor of architecture and design at the University of NSW (New South Wales) in 1982. With this extensive participation in various significant cultural organisations including positions as Chairman of the Australian Film Institute, Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria and Member of the Victorian Council of the Arts, Vice President of the Melbourne Cricket Club and President of Wesley College where he has continually contributed to a heterogeneous notion of Australian Culture.[3]
Daryl Jackson's addition to the Immigration Museum
Architectural style and practice
Jackson's architecture has evolved over forty years of professional practice. His first contribution to Australian architecture began with the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool which defined his early Brutalist architecture style.
Two buildings, Swinburne University Graduate School of Management and County Court of Victoria in central Melbourne, work their way into the iconic street grid to form hard-edge modernist figures on important street corners. The slicing ‘cut edge’ profiling of the Court entrance portico is a gesture of urban affirmation that symbolises and emphasises a new presence.
Jackson's more recent projects, found in Australia and internationally, differ from one another because they reflect the attitudes, technologies and vernacular of their respective localities.
Jackson architecture
As the chief principal of design at Jackson Architecture, Daryl Jackson perceives his role relative to that of a film director: “working on the plot, lining up the cameras, producing and editing to generate the desired result”. [4] While Jackson unifies each product with his direct design input, he places a strong emphasis on collaborative design and idea thinking, and acknowledges the talent and co-professionalism of other designers that help piece together each project.
Jackson and Gehry
Daryl Jackson is to work with American architect Frank Gehry on the new building at the University of Technology, Sydney[when?]. The new business school for UTS, the Dr Chau Chak Wing building, will be Gehry’s first building in Australia with a design based on the idea of a tree-house structure.[5]
Construction will start in early 2012 and be complete in time for the 2014 academic year.
Daryl Jackson's award-winning County Court of VictoriaAwards
He was the first Australian architect to be awarded the Sir Zelman Cowen Award in 1981.[6]
He was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1987.
He was appointed an Officer of the Officer of the Order of Australia on 26 January 1990 for his service to architecture.
Award-winning projects
In 2003, Jackson was awarded the RAIA Interior Architecture Award for the County Court of Victoria, Melbourne Victoria.
In 1999, Jackson was awarded the RAIA Presidents Award for Recycled Buildings for the Immigration Museum and Hellenic Archaeological Museum, Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1998, Jackson was awarded RAIA Environment Award for Sunshine Coast University College, Science Faculty Building, Queensland.
Award-recent awards
2010 RAIA Public Architecture Award RAIA (WA Chapter) Regional Commendation for the WA Basketball Centre (AK Reserve) (Peter Hunt Architects JV)
2010 RAIA Colourbond Award for Steel Architecture RAIA (WA Chapter) Regional Commendation for the RWA Basketball Centre (AK Reserve) (Peter Hunt Architects JV)
2010 Master Builders (WA) Excellence in Construction Award Excellence in Construction Award Best State Government Building Commendation WA Basketball Centre (AK Reserve) (Peter Hunt Architects JV)
2010 Master Builders (VIC) Excellence in Construction Award Excellence in Commercial Buildings $10M-$15M Commendation VIC Ivanhoe Girls’ Grammar School
2010 Western Australian Heritage Award WA Police Midland Operations Support Facility, (Peter Hunt Architects JV)
Work
Jackson’s projects are mostly found in Australia’s four east coast capital cities: Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra. He also has work located in Shanghai, Qingdao, Hanoi, Berlin and London.
Notable works include:
Education projects
- Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School Resource Centre
- Sydney Conservatorium of Music
- Redevelopment of the University of Ballarat
- University of Queensland Biosciences Precinct
- Redevelopment of the Wesley College – St. Kilda Road Campus Junior School (formerly known as the Preparatory School)
- Swinburne University Graduate School of Business
Residential projects
- Carlton Housing Redevelopment
- Wuxi Housing Development, China
Health and research
- Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital redevelopment
- Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital redevelopment
- Royal Melbourne Hospital redevelopment
- Prince of Wales Hospital redevelopment
- Royal Australasian College of Surgeons redevelopment
- CSIRO Discovery Centre
Sport and recreation
- Telstra Dome
- Brisbane Cricket Ground
- Melbourne Cricket Ground Great Southern Stand
- Melbourne Cricket Ground Northern Stand
- Australian Institute of Sport Swimming Hall
- Frankston Arts Centre
Commercial and retail
- 120 Collins Street, Melbourne
- 480 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
- European Serviced Offices, Budapest
- Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra
- Brindabella Business Park, Canberra
- Canberra Centre, Canberra
Government
- 3-5 National Circuit Attorney General's Department
- County Court of Victoria
- West Australian Police Academy
- Main Airport Terminal at Canberra International Airport
- Impulse Airline Hangar at Canberra International Airport
- Capital Jet Facility at Canberra International Airport
Master-planning
References
- ^ http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/About/Alumni_Profiles.php
- ^ http://www.msd.unimelb.edu.au/events/other/daryl-jackson.html
- ^ http://www.jacksonarchitecture.com/#/people/daryl-jackson/
- ^ Jackson, Daryl 2007, Daryl Jackson Architecture Folio, The Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd 2007, Australia
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
External links
Categories:- Australian architects
- RMIT University alumni
- 1937 births
- Living people
- Officers of the Order of Australia
- Recipients of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal
- People educated at Wesley College, Melbourne
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