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Jackson, Daryl
(b Clunes, Victoria, 7 Feb 1937). Australian architect. He studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (1954–6) and at the University of Melbourne (1957–8). Between 1960 and 1964 he worked for Chamberlin, Powell & Bon in England and Paul Rudolph and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in the USA. In 1965 he returned to Melbourne and worked in the practice he had set up with Evan Walker (b 11 Oct 1935) in 1963. Jackson’s work, predominantly in the public realm, is informed by a commitment to architecture as a democratic social art. Early buildings designed by the firm were informally planned around meandering pedestrian routes incorporating 45° splays derived from the work of Rudolph and Louis Kahn. A Brutalist vocabulary of off-form concrete, unpainted blockwork and metal glazing systems was used, notably in the Harold Holt Pool (1967; with Kevin Borland), Melbourne, and the Canberra School of Music (1972–6). In the late 1970s the firm produced work of a less assertive character, highly sensitive to human activity and context, using white-painted brick and concrete; examples include the State Bank Residential College, Baxter (1977), Victoria, the McLachlan Federal Government Offices (1978), Canberra, and extensions (1978) to the Canberra School of Art. After Walker left the practice in 1979, Jackson’s work became more eclectic and complex, incorporating Post-modern devices such as deconstructivist diagonal shifts in plan and free-standing screens to create layered façades. Several works of the 1980s employ steel structures with lightweight cladding panels, often in coloured horizontal bands, as in the National Sports Centre Swimming Pool (1982), Canberra. He later turned increasingly to classically based compositions, particularly in urban projects such as the office tower (1992) at 120 Collins Street, Melbourne. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1987.
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