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MenuHomeUpfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon | DIAMOND, Abel Joseph (Jack)Born: 1932 11 08ArchitectSACA:Reg No: 1794 Year registered: 1956 | ||||
BArch (Dist) (CT, 1956), BA (Hons) (Oxon), MA (Oxon, 1958), March (City Planning) (Penn, 1962), ISAA, NIA. Born in Piet Retief, Natal, South Africa. He received his architectural education at the University of Cape Town, Cape Province in the years 1951 until 1956, being awarded the Thornton White Prize in 1952. He furthered his studies at the University of Oxford, England in the years 1956 until 1958. Thereafter he proceeded to the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in the years 1961 until 1962, having been awarded the Marley Scholarship in 1961 and an Italian State Bursary in the same year, as well as the Graham Foundation Scholarship in 1962, being awarded an MArch in 1962. Here he was appointed Assistant Professor in the years 1962 until 1964, when he immigrated o Canada and became a naturalised citizen in 1965. There he was appointed as Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, 1964-69; Professor, York University, Toronto, in the years 1969 until 1973. He went into private practice as AJ Diamond Architect, Toronto, 1965-69; thereafter in partnership with Barton Myers, practicing under the style Diamond and Myers in Toronto, Canada 1969-74. Recorded in 1980 as being since 1975, Principal of AJ Diamond Associates, architects and planners, Toronto (associates: Wilfrid Worland; Kevin Gar-and; Leslie M Klein) with a branch office in Ottawa, of address 322 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5V 1J4, Canada.
Jack DIAMOND was the Sophia Gray Laureate in 1999. He married Gillian Mary Huggins in 1959 by whom he had two children, Andrew and Alison. References
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