F. R. S. Yorke

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Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke (3 December 1906 - 10 June 1962), known professionally as F. R. S. Yorke[1] and informally as Kay or K, was an English architect and author.

One of the first native British architects to design in a modernist style,[2] he made numerous contacts with leading European architects while contributing to the Architects Journal in the 1930s, and in 1933 was secretary and founder member of the MARS Group.[3] Between 1935 and 1937 he worked in partnership with the Hungarian architect and former Bauhaus teacher Marcel Breuer, before forming the Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall partnership in 1944, with whom he designed many post-war buildings including St Thomas' Hospital in London.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Worsley, Giles. "Master builder: F R S Yorke", The Daily Telegraph, 2003-05-10, p. 10. Retrieved on 2008-06-01. 
  2. ^ Pile, John F. [2000] (2005). "The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe", A History of Interior Design, 2nd Edition, London: Laurence King Publishing, 370. ISBN 1856694186. 
  3. ^ Bullock, Nicholas. "Rethinking the new architecture", Building the Post-war World: Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Britain. London: Routledge, 28. ISBN 041522179X. 
  4. ^ Sheppard, Richard; rev. Powers, Alan (2004). "Yorke, Francis Reginald Stevens (1906–1962)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2008-06-01. 
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