Ernest Fooks
Dr Ernest Fooks (born Ernest Leslie Fuchs, 6 October 1906 – 4 December 1985) was an influential European-trained architect who made a significant contribution to architecture, town planning, and design education in Australia and to the cultural life of Melbourne after emigrating to the city just before the Second World War. Early life He was born as Ernest Fuchs in 1906 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, when it was part of Austria-Hungary. His family moved to Vienna in 1908 where he went on to study architecture at the Vienna Technical University, completing a doctorate in Technical Science with a major in Town Planning, and opening his own architectural practice in 1932. Facing extreme anti-semitism, in 1939 he migrated to Australia via Canada, where he married his Latvian born wife Noemi Matusevic. They arrived in Melbourne in April, and he soon gained a position as a town planner with the nascent Housing Commission of Victoria. In 1944 he was appointed the first lecturer in t ...
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