Former Director and longtime support Daryl Jackson I believe died this week. Longtime supporter, contributor and construction total. He designed the Great Southern Stand.
Nothing from the club I have seen which is disappointing.
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Club being coy about how many weeks he is out as usual.
Just tell us he’s dead.
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Also designed the Northern Stand.
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Condolences to family and friends.
Heart awareness?
Also designed the Hangar - both stages - From the AIA……
Remembering Daryl Jackson | A Defining Voice in Australian Architecture
One of Australia’s most pre-eminent architects of the late twentieth and early twenty first century, Daryl Jackson AO, passed away on Saturday after a long illness. Graduating from RMIT and the University of Melbourne, Jackson’s work, teachings and writings dominated architectural thought from the mid-sixties onwards. Jackson commenced practice in 1963 as Daryl Jackson Evan Walker Architects until Walker departed to take a seat in State Parliament, when the studio became Daryl Jackson Architects and in more recent times, Jackson Architecture, under which name it continues to this day.
Jackson’s early work was a significant contribution to Australia’s brutalist period manifesting sculptural buildings across Melbourne from Lauriston Girl’s School (1969), Methodist Ladies College Library (1973) and Princes Hill Secondary College (1972), to Harold Holt Swimming Pool (1966-69) designed with Kevin Borland, and in Canberra the Canberra School of Art (1970-76). His work evolved into major sporting, educational and commercial projects across the eastern seaboard of Australia and into Asia. Sports stadiums such as the Melbourne Cricket Ground’s Northern Stand (2003-05) and Great Southern Stand (1988-91), hospitals such as the Royal Melbourne Hospital redevelopment and commercial icons such as the 50 storey 120 Collins Street tower (1989-91) were landmark structures of architectural and public standing. In many of these major projects, Jackson worked collaboratively with other architectural practices.
In his monograph of 1984, Daryl Jackson Architecture Drawings and Photographs, Daryl established an oeuvre and a clear practice philosophy including a perspective of architectural design as founded upon the imagining and nurturing of an intelligible ‘plot’ (or substantive idea) the inherent hierarchies; a kind of ordering and allowance for those necessary levels of ambiguity, which accord with universal ideas of art and instruct our energies towards contact with all other activities, a more general viewpoint of the world. His notion of ordering and layering was clearly illustrated by Jaro Safer’s explanatory axonometrics united with compositional elevations and complimented by John Golling’s all-encompassing photography.
His guest lectures were always packed and he was very influential over a generation of students during my time at university as well as before and after. He clearly had a positive influence on his son, Tim and daughter, Sara with them both entering our profession. I recall one lecture by Daryl at the University of Melbourne in the late eighties where he explained his interest in the post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne on his work and specifically his fascination with complex and even chaotic environments that in architectural terms could provide a means of spatially interpreting environments. Daryl’s continual thinking and exploration inspired many around him.
Daryl’s work was published in many texts and magazines, with the practice winning numerous awards including the Sir Zelman Cowan Award for public architecture for the Canberra School of Art (1981) and for the National Swimming Halls also in Canberra (1986) and in 1987 he was recognized for his contribution to Australian architecture by being the recipient of the Institute’s Gold Medal. Daryl was also a significant contributor to the wider community most notably with the Melbourne Cricket Club, Essendon Football Club, Wesley College and the National Gallery to name just a few and was later appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1990 for services to architecture.
Daryl’s passing is the closing of a significantly productive chapter of thought and works in Australian architecture, his career leading a cohort of practitioners in establishing a language of architecture, a strengthening of institutional responsibilities and a reframing of our urban condition. Our condolences and thoughts are with Kay, Tim, Sara, Melissa, Olivia, their families and friends. Vale Daryl Jackson
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Thanks for this. A real titan of architecture in Melbourne and a captain of industry. I’m surprised his passing has gone largely unnoticed around town. He donated huge sums of money to Essendon over the years.
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And time (architectural services)
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I hear Brad Scott was planning to play him on the wing…
RIP
Became a bit reclusive in his later years. His memorial service will be well attended by many in the architecture industry - just a legend in his field….Club just a laggard but no doubt will be well represented at his memorial. Funeral just family…..
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I believe Daryl Jackson played in the Third XVIII’s in the 1950’s and was captain in one season. As previously mentioned EFC Board member for many years and and for some time on the MCC Committee.
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