Before his death, David Jackson had time to reflect on his formative years in the 1950s, when a scholarship took him from a small village in the Cotswolds to the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. Here, Peter Smithson, arguably the founder of New Brutalism, was Jackson’s master and ultimately a major influence on his work. In 1956, Jackson won a King George VI Memorial Fellowship at Yale for postgraduate study in town planning. Professor Christopher Tunnard, an inspirational city-planner of the time, took Jackson
