F. R. S. Yorke

Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke (3 December 1906 - 10 June 1962), known professionally as F. R. S. Yorkecite news|first=Giles|last=Worsley|title=Master builder: F R S Yorke|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2003/05/10/pmast10.xml
work=The Daily Telegraph|publisher=|page=10|date=2003-05-10|accessdate=2008-06-01] 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, [cite book|last=Pile|first=John F.|title=A History of Interior Design|origyear=2000|url=|accessdate=2008-06-01|edition=2nd Edition|year=2005|publisher=Laurence King Publishing|location=London|isbn=1856694186|pages=370|chapter=The Spread of Early Modernism in Europe|chapterurl=|quote= ] 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. [cite book|last=Bullock|first=Nicholas|authorlink=|coauthors=|editor=|others=|title=Building the Post-war World: Modern Architecture and Reconstruction in Britain|origdate=|origyear=|origmonth=|url=|format=|accessdate=|edition=|series=|date=|year=|month=|publisher=Routledge|location=London|language=|isbn=041522179X|pages=28|chapter=Rethinking the new architecture|chapterurl=|quote= ] 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.cite encyclopedia|last=Sheppard|first=Richard|coauthors=rev. Powers, Alan|editor=|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title=Yorke, Francis Reginald Stevens (1906–1962)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37067|accessdate=2008-06-01|edition=Online Edition|year=2004|month=|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford]

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