Bernard Kaukas
Bernard Aloysius Kaukas MBE FRIBA (30 July 1922 – 2 May 2014) was Chief Architect for British Railways (BR) from 1968 to 1977 and BR's Director of Environment from 1977 to 1982.
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Bernard Kaukas
- Born
- 1922
- Died
- 2014
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- architect
- Honours
- Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects · Member of the Order of the British Empire
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Bernard Aloysius Kaukas MBE FRIBA (30 July 1922 – 2 May 2014) was Chief Architect for British Railways (BR) from 1968 to 1977 and BR's Director of Environment from 1977 to 1982.
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Kaukas was born in Hackney (London), on 30 July 1922 to Joseph Kaukas (1885–1964) and Ethel Margaret Morgan-Adlam (1894–1979). He was schooled at St Ignatius College, Stamford Hill. During the Second World War he spent a brief period as a firefighter in the London Blitz before joining the Royal Navy and serving on HMS Douglas. After the war, he studied architecture at the Northern Polytechnic Institute in London, and worked briefly for two county council departments before going into private practice. In 1959 he moved to the British Transport Commission. In 1968 he succeeded Frederick Francis Charles Curtis as chief architect to the British Railways Board and in 1977 their Director of Environment until he retired in 1982. He was succeeded as Chief Architect to British Railways by Ray Moorcroft. During his time at British Rail he persuaded the company to invest £3m to save the roof of St Pancras railway station which was in danger of collapse. He was appointed MBE in 1984.
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- 1.ONS. Index entry. FreeBMD.
- 2.Deaths of Two Celebrated Alumni. Jesuits in Britain.
- 3.Ealing man takes over the B.R. 'Shop Window'. Middlesex County Times. 16 August 1968.
- 4.Keleny, Anne. Bernard Kaukas: British Rail architect whose greatest achievement was helping to save the Victorian roof at St Pancras Station. The Independent. 15 June 2014.
- 5.Bernard Kaukas. The Times. 15 June 2014.
- 6.49768. 16 June 1984. 14.
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