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Alistair Knox was born on 8 April, 1912 in Australia, is an Alistair Samuel Knox was designer, builder. Discover Alistair Knox's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Occupation Architect
Age 74 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 8 April 1912
Birthday 8 April
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Date of death 30 July, 1986
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Nationality Australia

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1912

Alistair Samuel Knox (8 April 1912 – 30 July 1986) was an Australian designer, builder and landscape architect who used recycled materials and mudbrick in his constructions and is considered to be a pioneer of modern mudbrick building, having designed more than 1,000 houses throughout the Nillumbik region of Victoria as well as in other parts of Australia.

Born in the Melbourne suburb of Middle Park, Knox attended Scotch College before leaving, aged 15, to work as a bank clerk in the State Savings Bank of Victoria.

1942

From June 1942, he devoted spare time to the Volunteer Defence Corps, transferring to the Naval Auxiliary Patrol in 1943.

1944

In 1944 he joined the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve serving on HMAS Martindale, in the waters off Papua New Guinea until the end of World War II.

1946

Following his discharge he returned to the bank, and in 1946 began to study building construction at Melbourne Technical College; during his studies, he started building two houses near Eaglemont.

1947

Post-war shortages of building materials led Knox to consider using mudbrick, and in 1947 he built a mudbrick house in Montmorency.

He later actively campaigned for banks to lend capital for earth-built housing projects, and as a result he helped popularise and legitimise mudbrick buildings in mainstream society.

Largely self-taught, Knox believed that houses should be built using available resources and by working in harmony with the environment.

He pioneered an 'Australian' architectural look characterised by a lower, flatter roof line, often with a clerestory to introduce light to the centre of the house and large windows to the living areas to bring the 'outside in'.

Second-hand bricks, large eaves, verandahs, natural materials and finishes, adobe walls, timber linings and large beams, brick and slate floors became a feature.

These ideals were formed by the strictures of the immediate post-WWII period, as well as his circle of friends in the artistic community, and an independent view of the world.

Knox's main influences were Justus Jorgensen at Montsalvat, Francis Greenaway, Walter Burley Griffin and Frank Lloyd Wright.

In landscape design Knox was particularly impressed by the work of Ellis Stones and Gordon Ford, whose espousal of 'bush gardens' he helped to promote.

As a building practitioner Alistair Knox played a key role in encouraging and facilitating the self-builder movement.

By demystifying the building process he helped empower people to build for themselves.

1970

It was designed in the early 1970s, and was built with reclaimed materials, including pieces of the demolished Bendigo Natives Association (ANA) Hall, 19th century railway parts, and bricks made by convicts from Bruny Island.

1983

Knox was a founding member and fellow (1983) of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects.

1984

After more than 30 years of designing and building Alistair Knox was awarded an honorary degree as a Doctor of Architecture by the University of Melbourne in 1984.

Nanga Gnulle is one of two houses that Alistair Knox designed in the area of Bendigo.

2017

The house is a rare example of Knox's mudbrick modernist style, and in 2017 was granted heritage protection.

The Alistair Knox Park in Eltham is named after him and many of Knox’s buildings are heritage listed and can be visited during the annual Eltham mudbrick tours.

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