Verner Owen Rees Explained

Verner Owen Rees
Practice:Rees & Harvey
Significant Buildings:County Offices, Kendal; Soissons Memorial
Nationality:British
Death Place:Parthenay, France

Verner Owen Rees FRIBA (1886–1966) was a British Architect. He was an architectural partner with Frederick Milton Harvey at Rees & Harvey in London, UK.[1]

Verner trained with Caroe & Passmore. Assistant to Lutyens 1910–12, then to New York. During the First World War he served in the Artist's Rifles.[2] From 1921 to 1925 Verner taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and became Principal in 1929.[3] He died in Parthenay, France on 7 November 1966.[4]

Work

He was responsible for the design of many buildings in the 1930s including County Offices, Kendal in 1939,[5] [6] the 1937 Library at Swansea University,[7] the new London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine building with the entrance on Keppel Street opened in1929,[8] the library wing to the north-east and garden wing of Aberdare Hall at Cardiff University,[9] the 1950s library building at the University of Birmingham which has since been demolished,[10] and worked on commissions for Soissons Memorial on behalf of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[11] Verner also won the competition to design the new offices for Harrow Council but it was never completed[12] and was the runner up in the competition to design the new RIBA building in 1932.[13]

Written works

He authored the book The Plan Requirements of Modern Buildings and journal articles including Informal Architectural Notes on the Planning of University Libraries.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rees & Harvey AHRnet . 2023-04-29 . architecture.arthistoryresearch.net.
  2. Web site: Verner O Rees . 2023-04-29 . WW1 Cemeteries.com - A photographic guide to over 4000 military cemeteries and memorials . en.
  3. Web site: Dictionary of Scottish Architects - DSA Architect Biography Report (May 2, 2023, 8:27 am) . 2023-05-02 . www.scottisharchitects.org.uk.
  4. Web site: Category:Verner O. Rees - Wikimedia Commons . 2023-05-02 . commons.wikimedia.org . en.
  5. Web site: Kendal's County Offices granted Grade II listed status . 2023-04-29 . The Westmorland Gazette . en.
  6. Web site: Fulcher . Merlin . 2016-09-01 . Masterplanner sought for Kendal public sector hub . 2023-05-02 . The Architects’ Journal . en.
  7. Web site: Verner O. Rees - Swansea University . 2023-04-29 . www.swansea.ac.uk.
  8. Brady . David . 2018 . Public or Private? London Medical Buildings of the Interwar Years. . Twentieth Century Architecture . 13 . 74–75 . JSTOR.
  9. Book: Newman, John . Glamorgan : (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan) . 1995 . Penguin Books . Stephen Hughes, Anthony Ward . 0-14-071056-6 . London . 33858574.
  10. Web site: The University of Birmingham – The Green Heart by Churchman Thornhill Finch . 2023-05-02 . Landezine . en-US.
  11. Web site: CWGC . Soissons Memorial Cemetery Details . 2023-04-29 . CWGC . en.
  12. Web site: A photograph of a measured drawing showing a cross sectional elevation of a proposed design for new offices for Harrow Council (CC47/01327) Archive Item - Herbert Felton Collection Historic England . 2023-05-02 . historicengland.org.uk . en.
  13. Web site: Vol. 21 No. 7 (1 Jul 1932) . 2023-05-02 . Trove . en.
  14. REES . VERNER O. . 1946-01-01 . INFORMAL ARCHITECTURAL NOTES ON THE PLANNING OF UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES . Journal of Documentation . 2 . 2 . 64–67 . 10.1108/eb026087 . 0022-0418.

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