Carl Rhys Rees was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1938, and educated at Melbourne Grammar School. He enrolled on the five-year Diploma course at the Architectural Association (AA) in 1959 and, for his final year (1963-64), elected to study with the AA’s Department of Tropical Studies. Rees appears to have flourished at the AA, winning a year prize in 1961. His final year project, with the Department of Tropical Studies, was a proposal for Melbourne Airport. Immediately following the completion of his Diploma course, Rees appears to have worked for six months in Germany, for the Stuttgart practice of Curt Siegel and Rudolf Wonnsberg, Stuttgart. Records in the AA Archives show he planned to then briefly visit the UK again before returning to Australia. Details of his subsequent career are not known to us but he appears to have established his own practice in Australia by at least the 1990s. 

Sources 

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Registrar’s Student Records, 1959-64, AA Archives