Background
Ernest Clifford Wilson, Junior. was born on May 15, 1924 in Burbank, California.
Ernest Clifford Wilson, Junior. was born on May 15, 1924 in Burbank, California.
He graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he studied Architecture and played football with the Trojans.
He designed many office buildings in San Diego and Orange County, as well as the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. As President of Koll International, he masterplanned and developed many hotels and golf clubs in Baja California, Mexico. In 1949, he partnered with fellow University of Southern California graduate in Architecture Robert East. Langdon, Junior. to form an architectural firm.
Two years later, in 1951, they officially founded Langdon Wilson.
The firm had offices in Los Angeles and Newport Beach. While Langdon oversaw design projects in the Los Angeles area, Wilson took care of projects in and around Newport Beach.
However, Wilson is credited with co-designing at least two buildings in Los Angeles County with Langdon: the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades and the Bank of America Building in Beverly Hills. He designed high-rise buildings in San Diego and Orange County.
He was also the master planner of the Irvine Spectrum in Irvine and the Koll Center Financial Plaza in Newport Beach.
Moreover, he oversaw the designs of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, named for United States. President Richard M. Nixon. Additionally, he served as the President of Koll International, a real estate development firm. He masterplanned and developed many hotels and golf resorts in Baja California, Mexico.
He served on the Board of Directors of the Newport Harbor Art Museum.
He died on August 18, 1992 at the Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach, California. He was sixty-eight years old.
He was a member of the American Institute of Architects.