Paul Christopher Memmott AO is an Australian architect, anthropologist, academic and the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland.
His program was influenced by student protests of human rights at the university in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as lecturers who considered art and architectural psychology as integral to the discipline.
As part of his professional placement Memmott worked for the Queensland State Works Department and was recruited to join a project organised by Nugget Coombs to visit Mt Isa and Cloncurry where an Aboriginal community centre was to be constructed.
His analysis of Indigenous design led to a post graduate scholarship on the spatial behaviour of Aboriginal people in North West Queensland.
Memmott studied social anthropology in 1974 and commenced his PhD, with Bruce Rigsby as one of his supervisors.