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distinct phases, the first of which expressed post-war austerity through conventional forms and finishes. There was a common and straightforward vocabulary in Fooks' early houses which included plain face cream or yellow brickwork, basic hipped or gabled terracotta roofs and simple double-fronted facades. Though these early designs were simple in form, Fooks' was beginning to introduce sophisticated modernist ideas and features. His
Sternberg House in Kew (1948) was designed on the "principles of solar control" and incorporated almost full height windows, glazed doors and generous paved terrace areas.
185:, Fooks had relatively few opportunities to design major buildings and is best known for his numerous residential projects. From 1950, his firm designed over forty apartment blocks in and around the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. By the mid 1950s, his practice expanded to take on commercial projects including La Ronde jewellery shop in
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style was characterised by efficient structural forms, a reduced palette of materials, generous amounts of glass and elegantly simple details. His domestic projects involved complex and carefully detailed multi-layered open-plan living and thoughtfully constructed surrounding landscapes. His
Lansell
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Fooks created houses of architectural significance with individual, and highly creative designs which combined analytical planning with aspects of
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Fooks' middle period exhibited an
International Modern style, characterised by low-pitched, flat and butterfly roofs, and bold massings of box-like forms that projected and receded to create striking spaces of solids and voids in finishes of brick and feature stonework. His Appel House in Caulfield
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North (1955) was a two-storey flat-roofed house with generous windows, and cream brick walls relieved by a broad stone-clad chimney and simple but elegant metal balustrades to the first floor balcony and roof terrace above.
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433:âYesterday and Tomorrow. Town Development Past and Futureâ, Part 2, AHB March 1944, pp. 6â10. Also published in Town and Country Planning Association of Victoria Journal n.d. pp. 82â85.
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Fooks saw apartment living as a necessity in successful urban planning. His book âXray the City: The
Density Diagram, Basis for Urban Planningâ, published in 1946, with a foreword by
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Rd House (1963) is of aesthetic significance for its high level of craftsmanship in joinery and finishes in folding and sliding screens and built-in teak furniture and cabinetry.
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for excellence in architectural design. A retrospective exhibition titled "In Quest & Praise of
Indigenous Architecture" was held at the Caulfield Arts Complex in 1989.
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who made a significant contribution to architecture, town planning, and design education in
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born wife Noemi
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The Adams House, on Lansell Road in Toorak, was voted Family Home of the year by Australian House and Garden magazine in 1966.
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Philip Goad, "The Modern House in Melbourne", 1945 to 1975", Ph D Thesis, University of Melbourne, September 1992, p 6/56.
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Fooks died on 4 December 1985 aged 79. The annual Ernest Fooks Memorial Award was established in his honour by the
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Edquist, Harriet (2001) . "Ernest, Fooks : Architect", p. 11-23. School of Architecture and Design RMIT.
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Butler, Roger. (ed) The Europeans: ĂmigrĂ© artists in Australia 1930-1960, National Gallery of Australia, 1997
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469:âUSSRâ, Architecture Today November 1958 pp. 23â29.
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