Robert Ernest was an architect of rare promise and remarkable early
success, whose award-winning career was cut short by cancer at age
28 in 1962. Despite the brevity of Ernest’s life, his education
and practice were intertwined with some of the most important
figures in architecture, including his interactions with Louis I.
Kahn and Paul Rudolph. Ernest’s exceptional architectural
designs, though honoured during his lifetime with three Progressive
Architecture Awards and one Record Houses Award, have never been
documented in a comprehensive manner, and are now almost completely
lost to disciplinary history. Yet the materials in the
architect’s personal and professional archives — upon which
this book is almost entirely based — clearly indicate that Ernest
was a remarkably talented and unusually gifted architectural
designer, whose future promise and potential were inestimable.
Ernest’s two built works, both realised before he had turned 28,
his one work built after his death, as well as the remarkably
innovative unrealised projects documented in his archives, indicate
that had Ernest lived to a normal lifespan, he would have without
question been one of the most important architects of his
generation, with the potential to design precedent-setting
buildings equal to those realised by the most recognised architects
in the 60 years after his death.
General
Imprint: |
Oro Editions
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Authors: |
Robert McCarter
|
Dimensions: |
215 x 140mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
180 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-954081-43-7 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-954081-43-X |
Barcode: |
9781954081437 |
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