Fisher House by Alistair Knox

With a career that spanned from 1946 to 1986, builder and designer Alistair Knox (1912–1986) was a proponent of buildings that were wholly of their place. “The quest to express the region has always been my prime aim … I believe that a building in existence should be a piece of the environment it is in,” Knox wrote in Australian Regional Building.

Knox was a leading figure in the revival of mud brick construction – a resourceful technique in the postwar period, when conventional building materials were both scarce and expensive – and he honed and refined this line of enquiry over his career. Whether he was manipulating the