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Autumn

2016

Alistair Knox (1912–1986) and the Birth of Environmental Building in Australia

Published
2016-12-03

Abstract

The significance of environmental building in postwar Australia and the emergence of sympathetic housing have been long overlooked as an early environmental movement. Proponents of this type of building have held views contrary to widespread views of material development and heavy consumption. Alistair Knox was an early proponent of environmental building at a time when housing and communities were predicated on development at all costs and tearing down native landscapes to expand the suburbs rather than live in harmony with them.