FRS Yorke Architect, Modernist Buildings England, Projects, Modern Homes, English Designs
FRS Yorke, Architects : Architecture
20th Century English Architect studio located in southeast England, UK
post updated 18 May 2021
FRS Yorke – Key Projects
Key Buildings by this Modern British architect, alphabetical:
Torilla – private house, Nast Hyde, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Southeast England
Date built: 1935
Gane Pavilion, Bristol, Southwest England, UK
Date built: 1936
Design with architect Marcel Breuer
House in High Street, Iver, South Bucks district, Buckinghamshire, Southeast England, UK
Date built: 1936
Sea Lane House, Angmering-on-Sea, East Preston, Littlehampton, Sussex, South England, UK
Date built: 1937
Design with Marcel Breuer architect
Grade II Listed Building.
Shangri-la, Lee-on-the-Solent, Borough of Gosport in Hampshire, Southern England, UK
Date built: 1937
Design with Marcel Breuer
More design projects by this Modernist English architect online soon
Location: London, south east England, UK
FRS Yorke Architect – Practice Information
Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke founded architect practice Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall (YRM) in England, UK.
Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke was born in 1906 died in 1962.
Yorke Rosenberg and Mardall office : founded by Modernist architects in 1944:
FRS Yorke, Eugene Rosenberg and Cyril Mardall
The architects practice became YRM in 1975.
Architect Marcel Breuer went to London in 1935 and collaborated briefly with German architect Walter Gropius. He worked on an Exhibition Pavilion in Bristol and with Yorke on a Civic Centre of the Future for London.
Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer later moved to the USA where Gropius set up TAC – The Architecture Collaborative. Marcel taught with Gropius at Harvard University, Massachusetts.
photography by Ed Lederman
F.R.S Yorke Book: The Modern House
Published 1934
Book on the architect:
FRS Yorke and the evolution of English Modernism
2003
Author: Jeremy Melvin
Publisher: Wiley-Academy
Gorgeous evening light on the River Avon at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England:
photography by David Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The architect was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where his father was also an architect, and studied architecture and planning at the Birmingham School of Architecture, where his fellow students included other notable early Modernist figures including Richard Sheppard (later on of Sheppard Robson), Frederick Gibberd (later of Frederick Gibberd & Partners), Colin Penn and Robert Furneaux Jordan.
He was secretary and founder member of the MARS Group in 1933.
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