Alistair Knox
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Alistair Knox
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 Amongst his unpublished papers is a book he was preparing called 'The Home Builders Manual of Mud Brick Desig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 moreThe discipline of limited finance immediately started to produce an aura of inspired improvising that enabled the amateur builders to move into the problem with a new awareness that they were beating the system once more. For the past ten years I had, to a considerable degree, let go the primitive architectural character and produced over a hundred... See more
Alistair Knox
You can also choose from a growing number of talented home designers who aren’t licensed architects. They offer you the possibility of significant cost savings in the design phase of building your new home. They don’t have the architectural training or certification, so they bill at a lower rate than architects. These designers may draft the house
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After Manhattan-based art adviser Ed Tang (@tang747) and his partner purchased Marcel Breuer’s 1950 Stillman house in Litchfield, CT, they had the rare opportunity to scoop up the neighboring property as well: a pristine 1953 house designed by Breuer’s fellow Harvard Five architect and onetime student John M. Johansen. The Huvelle house retains a m... See more
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