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Don Watson: A Civil Servant

Exhibitions celebrating living Australian architects are rare, especially those that focus on a single architect. They are important, not just because they offer an opportunity to mark a colleague’s contribution, but because – if the architect is not the initiator – they allow others to assess and curate an architect’s work and, in doing so, allow new insights, glimpses of a legacy that the protagonist themselves might not even have realized they had achieved. And this is the case with Don Watson: A Civil Servant, the small, intimate, fondly and carefully put together exhibition curated by Janina Gosseye, Douglas Neale and

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