Architects

Name:

Richard Llewelyn Davies (Professor Lord)

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Architect

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08/02/1925

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1912

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08/02/1925

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1981

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Bio Notes :

A Communist during his youth, Richard Llewelyn-Davies studied for the degree of BA at the university of Cambridge.

He was briefly in partnership with Peter Moro from 1938. He was elected ARIBA in 1939. He took part in a Home Service radio talk on post-war house planning with Leslie Martin and Elizabeth Denby in 1941. In 1942 Llewelyn-Davies joined the London, Midland and Scottish Railway's engineering and planning division. During the 1950s he was employed by the Nuffield Provisional Hospital Trust. In December 1959 he was appointed suppporting consultant on Edinburgh Royal Infirmary redevelopment (with Robert Matthews as architect). He was made professor at Bartlett School of Architecture in 1960, heading the school from 1961. In 1969 he left the Bartlett to take up William Holford's former London planning chair as Professor of Urban Planning and Head of the School of Environmental Studies from 1970 where he remained until 1975.

He was the designer of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire.

He was elected FRIBA in ****.

He set up the firm Llewelyn Davies Weeks with architect John Weeks in 1960 which about 2005-6 became Llewelyn Davies Yeang, with Ken Yeang.

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The following private or business addresses are associated with this person:

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Address	Class	Date From Char	Date From Type	Date To Char	Date To Type	Notes
Carpenters Yard Park Street Tring Hertfordshire England	Private

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Address	Class	Date From	Date From Type	Date To	Date To Type	Notes
12 Mecklenburgh Square London England	Business

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The following individuals or organisations employed or trained this person (click on an item to view details):

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Name	Name Link	Date From	Date To	Position	Notes
London Midland and Scottish Railway Company	203430	In year 1942		Architect
Llewelyn Davies Yeang	405714	In year 1960		Director

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This person proposed the following individuals for RIBA membership (click on an item to view details):

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Person	Date Proposed	Notes
James Victor Trousdell Scott	1958/05/06	for Fellowship
Prabhat Lakshaman (Lakshamanrao) Kaikini	1969/02/05	For Fellowship<br>

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This person was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details):

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Building Name	Date Started	Town, District or Village	Island	City or County	Country	Notes
Greenock Royal Infirmary Convalescent Home	In year 1951	Greenock		Renfrewshire	Scotland	Experimental hospital ward block.
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary	In year 1959			Edinburgh	Scotland	Consulting architect (to Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners).

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The following books contain references to this person:

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Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Notes
Glendinning, Miles	Modern architect: the life and times of Robert Matthew	2008	RIBA Publishing	p94,99,227,258-9,282,455
RIBA	RIBA Kalendar 1953-54	1954
Glendinning, Miles	Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75	1997	Tuckwell Press Ltd	p28 Experimental ward at Greenock

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Periodical Name	Date Circ	Notes
Builder	1951/11/30	p747-51
Builder	1951/5/25	p768
Builder	1961/01/27	p201
Builder	1959/03/06	'The Design of Laboratories Symposium at the RIBA' p458

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