Verner Owen Rees

Verner Owen Rees FRIBA (1886–1966) was a British Architect.

During the First World War he served in the Artist's Rifles.

[4] 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,[2][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] He authored the book The Plan Requirements of Modern Buildings and journal articles including Informal Architectural Notes on the Planning of University Libraries.