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CLARK, David Edwyn

Born: 1911 03 11
Died: ?

Architect

SACA:
Reg No: 697
Year registered: 1938

BArch (Witwatersrand) (1935)

ARIBA (1938); ISAA (1938).

Studied architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1929 to 1934. He was a member of the short-lived Alpha Club which preceded zerohour (c1932) and took part in the Fine Arts Students tour of Italy from December to March 1930-1931. Clark graduated with a Degree of Bachelor of Architecture in March 1935 (Wits Graduation programme for 23 March 1935 lists Clark as graduating with a Degree of Bachelor of Architecture but spells his name as Edwin). The same year he joined the CITY ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT, JOHANNESBURG and was elected an Associate member of the RIBA in 1938. He later (n.d.) went to work for the Public Works Department in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika (Tanzania). By 1953 he was working in Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). He resigned from the Institute of South African Architects in 1961.

(ARIBA nom papers (1938) 7053; ISAA mem list; SAAR Jan 1935:20)

All truncated references not fully cited in 'References' are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.

Books citing CLARK

Herbert, Gilbert. 1975. Martienssen & the international style: The modern movement in South African architecture. Cape Town - Rotterdam: AA Balkema. pp 94

ISAA. 1959. The Yearbook of the Institute of South African Architects and Chapter of SA Quantity Surveyors 1958-1959 : Die Jaarboek van die Instituut van Suid-Afrikaanse Argitekte en Tak van Suid-Afrikaanse Bourekenaars 1958-1959. Johannesburg: ISAA. pp 89, 199