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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.
Foreword 7
\nUndergraduate School, European Travel, and Internship 9
\nUniversity of Virginia 9
\nInternship at Burk, LeBreton, and Lamantia,
\nArchitects, New Orleans, Louisiana 21
\nGraduate School and Apprenticeship 31
\nYale University, Master Class with Paul Rudolph 31
\nApprenticeship at Mann and Harrover,
\nArchitects, Memphis, Tennessee 57
\nArchitectural Practice 65
\nRobert Ernest, Architect, Jacksonville, Florida 65
\nRobert and Lynwood Ernest House and Studio,
\nAtlantic Beach, Florida, 1960-61 68
\nEli Becker House, Jacksonville, Florida, 1960-61 90
\nBartram School Library Addition, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 113
\nRobert and Martha Read House, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 116
\nAlbert Jr. and Donna Ernest House, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 120
\nCircusland Shopping Center, Tampa, Florida (project) 124
\nHarry and Helene Baker House, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 129
\nSecond Baptist Church Renovation \/ Addition, Jacksonville Beach,
\nFlorida (project) 133
\nApartment Tower, Jacksonville, Florida (project) 139
\nMunicipal Youth Center, Jacksonville, Floridia, 1961-62 141
\nLegacy and Influence 155
\nAfterwords 163
\nRobert Broward 163
\nCarl Abbott 164
\nDonald Singer 165
\nBibliography 166
\nIllustration Credits 167
\nAcknowledgments 169
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