Douglas Gordon (1932–2007) graduated with a B.Arch from the University of Sydney and was registered with the NSW Board of Architects in 1958. As a student, he had been working with Arthur Baldwinson and Harry Seidler. That year, he began the university’s Bachelor of Town and Country Planning, while writing to American universities to seek a scholarship place in their masters courses. He received offers from Harvard and Colombia, but chose to go to the University of Pennsylvania to connect with Professor Louis Kahn there. He also won a Fulbright Scholarship and a graduate student travel grant from the United States Government and the Hezlett Bequest Travelling Fellowship from the University of Sydney. After graduating in 1961, he worked for the Phildelphia office of Mitchell & Giurgola and the New York office of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (with Gordon Bunshaft). In 1962, he returned to a lecturing role at the University of NSW, then transferred to the University of Sydney, where he became a senior lecturer in 1969. In 1970, he took a study trip to the United States and Europe, returning to the University of Sydney in 1972. In 1980, he resigned to increase his involvement in private practice. In 1987, he formed Gordon and Valich with Furio Valich and the practice won several design competitions and awards. In 1999 he again graduated from the University of Sydney with a Masters in heritage conservation.
Sources
—Douglas Leslie Gordon curriculum vitae and project lists, 2004.
—NSW Board of Architects’ archives.
- Writers:
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Davina Jackson
- Date written:
- 2015
- Last updated:
- 2015
