Alistair Knox
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Alistair Knox
The ‘Anglian’ settlement at West Heslerton was a close-set but organized affair, with discrete areas devoted to animal husbandry and crafts, housing and burial (Figure 3). On either side of the stream that emanated from the spring, dozens of grubenhäuser used for grain storage were enclosed by clearly defined rectangular fenced or ditched pens. A m
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From his earliest days Alistair was very keen to inspire others to build in mud brick. His son Hamish suggested that Alistair was far more interested in helping aspiring do-it-yourself mud brick home builders than talking to paying clients. Amongst his unpublished papers is a book he was preparing called 'The Home Builders Manual of Mud Brick Desig
... See moreIt started for me in 1946 when I enrolled at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology to study. The Chifley Government provided free tertiary training for every ex-serviceman who would apply for it.
Enrollment day at the RMIT saw about two hundred applicants crowding into the Architecture School to be assigned to their study groups. I had done pa... See more
Enrollment day at the RMIT saw about two hundred applicants crowding into the Architecture School to be assigned to their study groups. I had done pa... See more