Indigenous architecture of Queensland

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IntroductionThe subject of this thesis was chosen as the cumulative effect of several incidents. Firstly, my own migration to a country and particularly to a State in which its indigenous architecture is unique to that particular area of the world . Secondly , a lecture by Dr . Burchard , a visiting American professor from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he state that after a cursory examination of Queensland’s present day domestic examination of Queensland’s present day domestic architecture, he was forced to wonder if a further development of this architecture method of planning and construction might not have been preferable to the promiscuous importation of overseas ideas, techniques and cliches, many of which are totally unsuited to Queensland’s sub-tropical and tropical climate. Thirdly, self-made alterations and renovations in a seventy-year old house in which I live at present, have revealed seemingly unorthodox methods of construction, and theories of planning

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