Daryl Sanders JacksonAO (born 7 February 1937) is an Australian architect and the owner of an international architecture firm, Jackson Architecture. Jackson also became an associate professor at University of Melbourne and Deakin University.
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 wrote a regular column on housing for The Age from 1966 to 1999. Jackson has also been a principal lecturer at Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) conventions and was a visiting professor of architecture and design at the University of New South Wales in 1982. With positions as Chairman of the Australian Film Institute, Trustee of the National Gallery of Victoria, Member of the Victoria Council of the Arts, Vice President of the Melbourne Cricket Club, Director of the Essendon Football Club, and President of Wesley College (Victoria), he has continually contributed to a heterogeneous notion of Australian culture.[3]
Daryl Jackson's addition to the Immigration Museum
Jackson's architecture has evolved over forty years of professional practice. His first contribution to Australian architecture began with the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre, 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.
As the chief principal of design at Jackson Architecture, 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's Sydney practice, Daryl Jackson Robin Dyke Pty Ltd, is the Executive Architect for the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) on the Frank Gehry-designed business school building. The Dr Chau Chak Wing Building was Gehry's first building in Australia with a design based on the idea of a tree-house structure.[5] Construction started early 2012 with a view to be completed in time for the 2014 academic year.
Daryl Jackson's award-winning County Court of Victoria
1999 – RAIA Presidents Award for Recycled Buildings for the Immigration Museum and Hellenic Archaeological Museum, Melbourne, Victoria.
2003 – RAIA Interior Architecture Award for the County Court of Victoria, Melbourne Victoria.
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, Best State Government Building Commendation for the WA Basketball Centre (AK Reserve) (Peter Hunt Architects JV)
2010 – Master Builders (VIC) Excellence in Construction Award, Excellence in Commercial Buildings $10M-$15M for the Commendation VIC Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School
2010 – Western Australian Heritage Award for the WA Police Midland Operations Support Facility, (Peter Hunt Architects JV)
2012 – WAN Interior Awards (Residential) | Interiors Longlist, For Analogue Fitout
2013 – Excellence in Construction of Commercial Building for the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre (Jackson Architecture and McConnel Smith Johnson)
2014 – Master Builders (Victoria) Excellence in Commercial Construction, For Melbourne Park Eastern Precinct Redevelopment
2015 – Design Is...Awards: Global Winner, For Monash International Bachelor of Business City Campus (In collaboration with JCB Architects)
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.
