David Walker is a plastician and property developer in the single person housing market, who won a UNESCO ‘Tomorrow’s Habitat’ medal for housing in Hull, England.

He was taught by Geoffrey H. Baker⁽¹⁾ at Newcastle School of Architecture and worked on Ralph Erskine’s ‘Byker Wall’⁽²⁾ before joining the Byker team, project architect Vernon Gracie, landscape architect Pär Gustafsson and sociologist Alison Ravetz⁽³⁾ to teach at Hull School of Architecture, the high watermark of humanism and the synthesis of art and architecture in English architectural education.

For thirty years, David Walker has worked with the painter and sculptor Michael H. Chilton⁽⁴⁾, including an oil paint based colour and form foundation class at Hull School of Architecture. This has led to ongoing tentative explorations of the plastic possibilities of the spatial realm:

‘Plastic happenings: the visual-spatial characteristics of the church of the monastery of La Tourette’, Architectural Research Quarterly, 20.2 (2016), 159-177

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‘Plasticity at Ronchamp: the interrelationship of form and light and its plastic manifestation’, Architectural Research Quarterly, 16.4 (2012), 349-361

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‘White space in northern light: two churches analysed’,
Architectural Research Quarterly, 8.1 (2004), 61-81

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