Ivan Dale Owen

Ivan Dale Owen (2 August 1924 – 12 November 1997) was a Welsh architect in the modernist architectural style. The Glamorgan Archives and The Independent newspaper both described him as a 'leading figure in Welsh architecture'. He served in the Royal Artillery between 1943 and 1946 and was commissioned as a lieutenant in June 1945. His war service took him to the North-West Frontier of India. In 1954, he won a Fulbright scholarship to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture and Planning and Harvard Graduate School of Design as a research scholar. By 1964, Percy Thomas & Son had become Sir Percy Thomas & Partners and Owen had become a partner. Portcullis House, Cardiff (1970-3)

Personal life In 1964, Owen married Maureen Kelly. They had three sons Jason (who died aged 5, on 17 January 1984), Justin and Julian.

There is a memorial window to Owen and to his son who died in infancy in All Saints Church, Penarth. The window includes a depiction of Owen's design for the bell tower and Great Hall of Aberystwyth University, in which it signifies the Heavenly City.