Professor Alfred (A.S.) Hook b. 1886

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Alfred (A.S.) Hook was a professor of architecture at the University of Sydney from the 1930s to the 1950s and earlier worked with the NSW Government Architect's office. Gold Medallists of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects are required to deliver a lecture named the A.S. Hook Memorial Address.

Alfred (AS) Hook (1886-1963)
Second Associate-Professor of Architecture at the University of Sydney before the Second World War, then appointed Professor one year before Professor Leslie Wilkinson retired in 1947. Hook’s teaching specialty was structures and contracts. Hook was responsible for creating the National Insitute of Architects by bringing together all the State bodies to form Chapters, and he became the first national president. For many years he was in control of the Institute but was ousted (for having held on too long) shortly after the war. In the early 1920s, he was employed by the NSW Government Architect. In his retirement, he wrote detective stories under the non de plume A.J. Colton.
Sources
—Johnson, Paul Alan and Susan Lorne Johnson. Since 1996. Various interviews for the Architects of the Middle Third program, University of NSW.
—Johnson, Peter. 1985. AS Hook Memorial Address.

Writers:

Davina Jackson
Date written:
2015
Last updated:
2015