Ernest Fooks Collection

The archive relates to the career of architect and town planner, Ernest Fooks (1906-1985), it includes drawings for residential, commercial and civic projects, including presentation drawings, design and construction drawings, and clippings from British and American architectural magazines.   
Ernest Fooks was born Ernst Fuchs in Pressburg (now Bratislava) in 1906, in the former Czechoslovakia, and his family moved to Vienna in 1908. He studied architecture at Technical University Vienna (TUWien) beginning the three-year degree in architecture in 1924. After a two-year interlude during which he studies psychology, Fuchs completed his architecture degree in 1929. He obtained a doctorate in technical sciences in 1932 with a thesis titled Stadt in Streifen (‘Linear City’) completed under the supervision of prominent Viennese architect Siegfried Theiss. He went into private practice that year, entered competitions, published articles and exhibited his paintings. He practised until 1938 when he was forced to flee as the Nazi government made it increasingly difficult for Jews to remain in the country and with his Latvian-born wife Noemi, he migrated to Melbourne via Canada in May 1939. 
In Melbourne Fooks found a position with Frank Heath at the Housing Commission of Victoria which he retained throughout the war, resigning in 1948 to establish a private practice. In Melbourne Fooks found a position with Frank Heath at the Housing Commission of Victoria which he retained throughout the war, resigning in 1948 to establish a private practice.  He was appointed first lecturer in town planning at the Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University), c. 1944, remaining there until 1954. In 1948 he established a large and prosperous private practice, mainly – but not entirely – domestic in nature; flats being a speciality.  He served as president of the Jewish Society of Arts in the 1960s and designed the national Jewish Memorial Centre in Canberra (1971).  Fooks died in 1985. 
The collection at the RDA was given to RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in 1989 by his widow Noemi Fooks (née Noemija Matusevic, 1909-2013) to The University of Melbourne, the State Library of Victoria, The Jewish Museum of Australia, and the Jewish Holocaust Museum. In 2008 the collection was transferred to the RMIT Design Archives.  
Collection organized chronologically by project, 29 boxes in total, with most of the projects dating from the 1950s. Most of the projects documented are residential, including flats, however there are also commercial and civic projects, for example the archive for the National Jewish Memorial, Canberra is held in Box 14.  Boxes 21 to 23 have magazine articles on a variety of topics, including residential, commercial and civic work. These are clippings dating from the 1940s until the 1970s from various architectural magazines, such as Progressive Architecture, Architectural Forum, Royal Institute of British Architects, and the Architectural Record. A copy of the publication ‘X-ray the City!: the density diagram: basis for urban planning’ by Ernest Fooks is held in Box 21.

本档案集与建筑师兼城市规划师欧内斯特·富克斯（Ernest Fooks，1906-1985）的职业生涯相关，内含住宅、商业及市政项目的设计图纸，包括展示图、设计与施工图纸，以及英美建筑期刊的剪报资料。

欧内斯特·富克斯1906年生于前捷克斯洛伐克的普雷斯堡（现布拉迪斯拉发），原名恩斯特·富克斯（Ernst Fuchs），1908年随家人迁居维也纳。1924年进入维也纳技术大学（Technical University Vienna, TU Wien）攻读三年制建筑学学士学位，期间曾休学两年修习心理学，最终于1929年完成建筑学学业。1932年，他在知名维也纳建筑师齐格弗里德·泰斯（Siegfried Theiss）的指导下完成题为《带状城市》（Stadt in Streifen）的毕业论文，获技术科学博士学位。同年他开启私人执业生涯，参与建筑竞赛、发表学术文章并展出画作。1938年，因纳粹政府对犹太人的迫害日益加剧，他被迫流亡，1939年5月与拉脱维亚籍妻子诺埃米经加拿大移民至澳大利亚墨尔本。

抵达墨尔本后，富克斯入职维多利亚州住房委员会弗兰克·希思（Frank Heath）团队，二战期间始终在此任职，1948年辞职创立私人建筑事务所。约1944年，他被任命为墨尔本技术学院（现皇家墨尔本理工大学RMIT University）首位城市规划讲师，任职至1954年。1948年，他创办了规模可观且经营成功的私人事务所，业务以住宅项目为主（但并非完全局限于此），公寓设计为其专长领域。20世纪60年代，他担任澳大利亚犹太艺术协会主席，并于1971年主持设计了堪培拉国家犹太纪念中心。富克斯于1985年逝世。

该档案集最初由富克斯的遗孀诺埃米·富克斯（娘家姓诺埃米贾·马图舍维奇，Noemija Matusevic，1909-2013）于1989年分别赠予墨尔本大学、维多利亚州立图书馆、澳大利亚犹太博物馆以及犹太大屠杀博物馆，后于2008年移交至皇家墨尔本理工大学设计档案馆（RMIT Design Archives, RDA）。

该档案集按项目时间顺序整理，总计29箱，多数项目的资料年代为20世纪50年代。馆藏项目以住宅类（含公寓）为主，同时涵盖商业与市政项目，例如堪培拉国家犹太纪念中心的档案资料存放于第14箱。第21至23箱为各类主题的文章剪报，内容涉及住宅、商业及市政建筑作品，均为1940年至1970年间来自《Progressive Architecture》《Architectural Forum》《英国皇家建筑师学会期刊》（Royal Institute of British Architects）以及《Architectural Record》等建筑期刊的剪报。第21箱还藏有欧内斯特·富克斯所著《透视城市：密度图表——城市规划的基础》（X-ray the City!: the density diagram: basis for urban planning）的副本。