Roger Walker

• Name — Roger Walker • Honorific Suffix — ONZM • Birth Name — Roger Neville Walker • Born — 1942 • Birthplace — Hamilton, New Zealand • Education — University of Auckland • Practice — Calder, Fowler & Styles Walker Architecture and Design • Significant Buildings — Whakatāne Airport Thorndon School

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.

• Mansell House (1st house designed in 1966), Highbury, Wellington (1968) • Link Building, Wellington Waterfront (1969) • Sotiri House, Highbury, Wellington (1969) • Coleshill, (Homeworld '81) Milton Keynes (1981) • Wellington Club (1969–1972, demolished c. 1986) • Illustration — Queen Street, Masterton, in 1974, with the tower of Centrepoint Arcade • Centrepoint Arcade, Masterton (1972, demolished 1997) • Illustration — Whakatāne airport terminal • Whakatāne Airport (1973–74) • Cuttance House, Tirohanga, Lower Hutt • Park Mews, Hataitai, Wellington (1974) • Rainbow Springs Tourism Complex, Rotorua (1976–1981) • Britten House, Seatoun, Wellington (1977) • Willis Street Village, Wellington (1979–80) • Ainsworth House, Korokoro, Wellington (1970s) • Waitomo Caves Visitor Centre • Centre City Shopping Centre, New Plymouth (1985) • Novotel Gardens Park Royal Hotel, Queenstown (1988, formerly the THC Queenstown) • Ropata Lodge, Lower Hutt (1990) • Chesterman Group Offices, Hamilton (1992–93) • Pirie St Townhouses, Mount Victoria, Wellington • Margrain Winery and Conference Centre, Martinborough (1990s) • Sirocco Apartments, Wellington (1999) • Thorndon School, Wellington (c. early 2000s) • New World Supermarket, Thorndon, Wellington • Century City Apartments (completed mid-2009) • The Boundary townhouse complex, Wellington • (cancelled after the bankruptcy of developer Terry Serepisos) • Harris House, Lake Rotoroa • St Patrick's Church, Taumarunui • Solitaire Lodge, Tarawera • Wairakei Hotel Villas and recreational facilities, Taupō • 164 The Esplanade, Island Bay • 62 The Parade, Paekakariki