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Roger Walker (architect)

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Roger Neville Walker ONZM (born 1942) is a New Zealand architect based in Wellington.

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Career

After graduating in architecture from the University of Auckland in the 1960s, Walker worked for the architecture firm Calder, Fowler & Styles, until he established his own practice in the early 1970s. He now runs Walker Architecture & Design in Wellington.

Like his compatriot Ian Athfield, Walker is notable for his unconventional design approach, which came out of a reaction against the then-dominant modernist architecture in the 1960s and 1970s.

Walker appeared in the 2021 TV series Designing Dreams, hosted by Matthew Ridge, in which he visited his favourite houses.[1]

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Honours and awards

In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours, Walker was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to architecture.[2] He was awarded the New Zealand Institute of Architects' highest honour, the Gold Medal, in 2016.[3]

Selected designs

  • Mansell House (1st house designed in 1966), Highbury, Wellington (1968)
  • Link Building, Wellington Waterfront (1969)
  • Sotiri House, Highbury, Wellington (1969)
  • Wellington Club (1969–72, demolished c. 1986)
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Queen Street, Masterton, in 1974, with the tower of Centrepoint Arcade
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Whakatāne airport terminal

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