A Moment in the Sun

Robert Ernest’s Brief but Brilliant Life in Architecture

Robert McCarter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2023
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-954081-43-7 (ISBN)

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A monograph on Robert Ernest, a forgotten figure in American mid-century modern architecture, who, before passing at the tragically early age of 28, designed three built works that, in ways both direct and indirect, influenced the development of architecture in Florida for the following three generations.

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.

Robert McCarter is a practising architect, author and Ruth and Norman Moore Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis; his architectural practice has realised 25 works, and he has authored and edited 24 books on modern and contemporary architecture.

Foreword 7
Undergraduate School, European Travel, and Internship 9
University of Virginia 9
Internship at Burk, LeBreton, and Lamantia,
Architects, New Orleans, Louisiana 21
Graduate School and Apprenticeship 31
Yale University, Master Class with Paul Rudolph 31
Apprenticeship at Mann and Harrover,
Architects, Memphis, Tennessee 57
Architectural Practice 65
Robert Ernest, Architect, Jacksonville, Florida 65
Robert and Lynwood Ernest House and Studio,
Atlantic Beach, Florida, 1960-61 68
Eli Becker House, Jacksonville, Florida, 1960-61 90
Bartram School Library Addition, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 113
Robert and Martha Read House, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 116
Albert Jr. and Donna Ernest House, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 120
Circusland Shopping Center, Tampa, Florida (project) 124
Harry and Helene Baker House, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 129
Second Baptist Church Renovation / Addition, Jacksonville Beach,
Florida (project) 133
Apartment Tower, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 139
Municipal Youth Center, Jacksonville, Floridia, 1961-62 141
Legacy and Influence 155
Afterwords 163
Robert Broward 163
Carl Abbott 164
Donald Singer 165
Bibliography 166
Illustration Credits 167
Acknowledgments 169
Endnotes 171

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2023
Zusatzinfo	120 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	San Rafael
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 215 mm
Gewicht	578 g
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-954081-43-X / 195408143X
ISBN-13	978-1-954081-43-7 / 9781954081437
Zustand	Neuware