Green studied under Frank Lloyd Wright and is best known for his residential homes and commercial projects in the style of organic architecture.
After the Marines, Green had a brief stint at the University of California, Berkeley before returning to Georgia Tech with a newfound resolution to finish his architectural studies.
As Green wrote to Wright’s long-time secretary Eugene Masselink on November 6, 1958, “…ever since I learned that I could afford the tuition through the GI bill, I have longed to go there, I have longed to study under the man who could help me, who could hasten my development toward creating organic architecture.”[3] Copies of his correspondence with Wright’s secretary Eugene Masselink in August and November 1958 have been archived at the Getty Research Institute, part of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
[5][1] Known as the Copeland house, the home still stands today in the Collier Hills neighborhood of Atlanta and is owned by a prominent local architect.
[1] Robert Green primarily designed residential structures, although there were a handful of commercial projects to his name (such as the church at Holy Innocents Episcopal School in the adjacent city of Sandy Springs and a restaurant in Athens called Gigis, now torn down).
Most were single family homes like Arrowhead[6] and the so-called Kingloff House,[7] though multifamily units such as Ashford Apartments (now torn down) and Chastain Walk (still standing) brought his designs to a larger scale.
Living and working in the Atlanta area for many years, Green was often engaged by subsequent owners to design renovations on some of his earlier homes.