Ian Stapleton (architect)

Stapleton's 2013 renovation of the childhood home of cricketeer Don Bradman won a New South Wales National Trust heritage award.

In 1997 he took a job with Fisher Lucas, a partnership of Clive Lucas & Fisher Hudson, Sydney Architects. He planned the restoration and rejuvenation of thirteen terrace houses in the Woolloomooloo urban regeneration project; the restoration of Glenlee, Menangle, for the MacArthur Development Board; Willandra, Ryde for the Ryde City Council and Bronte House for Waverley Municipal Council.

From the early 1990s, Stapleton took part in two large Sydney heritage conservation projects: the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf and the Sydney General Post Office (GPO). At Woolloomooloo the old wharf was repiled and converted to hotel and apartment use. The commercial use of what had been public space was subject to criticism in the press.

In the early 1980s, with his partner, Maisy Stapleton, he published a series of articles in the Sydney Morning Herald on building restoration and Australian house styles.

As part of his work, Stapleton conducted research on the history of buildings. By the late 1980s and early 1990s Stapleton had joined a number of institutional and government heritage committees; he was president of Australia ICOMOS from 1992 to 1994, and worked on the organization's Burra Charter, which focused on the continuing use of historic places.

Stapleton was dux of his year (1969) at Wolaroi College, Orange, New South Wales, and studied Architecture at the University of Sydney (1970-1975), whilst living at Wesley College, University of Sydney.

Ian Stapleton (born 1951) is an Australian heritage architect and a partner at Lucas, Stapleton, Johnson and Partners Pty Ltd. a heritage architectural firm in Australia. Stapleton has carried out and contributed to heritage projects throughout Australia, including the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf, Walsh Bay Redevelopment, the Sydney GPO and Officials’ houses at Port Arthur, Tasmania. He is also active in the National Trust of Australia, the NSW Heritage Council and Australia ICOMOS. Stapleton has also published works on Australian architectural styles and is a visiting lecturer at various Sydney schools of architecture and building.