Evan Walker (politician)
Evan Herbert Walker
Evan Walker was born in Melbourne to Charles Fitzroy Walker, the headmaster of Box Hill Grammar School, and Ethel Ingamells. He attended his father's school and then Melbourne High School, graduating with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1959 from the University of Melbourne. He studied at the University of Toronto on a Commonwealth scholarship, receiving a Master of Architecture in 1962. He practised in Australia from 1963, but returned to Canada from 1965 to 1969, where he also tutored at Toronto University.
In 1971 he worked as an architect on the Elliston Estate in Rosanna.
In 1969 Walker joined the
Walker retired from politics in 1992, remaining active in Melbourne University's architecture faculty until 2000.
Walker died in February 2015, aged 79.[4]
The Southbank Pedestrian Bridge was subsequently renamed as Evan Walker Bridge, recognising the late Prof Walker’s role in creating the Southbank precinct.
References
- ^ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Walker, Evan Herbert". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
- ^ "Professor the Honourable Evan Herbert Walker". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ "The Hon. Evan Herbert Walker". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
- ^ "Former Labor planning minister Evan Walker remembered". The Age. 18 February 2015.
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