Frederick Gibberd

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Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd (7 January 1908 - 9 January 1984) was an English architect and landscape designer.

Gibberd was born in Coventry, the eldest of the five children of a local tailor, and was educated at the city's King Henry VIII School. In 1925 he was articled to a firm of architects in Birmingham and studied architecture under William Bidlake at the Birmingham School of Art, where his room-mate was F. R. S. Yorke.^[1]

A good friend of Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gibberd's work was influenced by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and F.R.S. Yorke. He set up in practice in 1930, designing Pullman Court, Streatham Hill, London (1934–6), a low-cost housing development which launched his career. With the success of this scheme, Gibberd became established as the 'flat' architect and went on to build several other schemes including Park Court, Sydenham, London (1936) and Ellington Court, Southgate, London (1936) continuing to practice until the outbreak of the Second World War.

Gibberd and Yorke collaborated on a number of publications including the influential book 'The Modern Flat' which was published in 1937 and featured the then newly completed Pullman Court and Park Court, as well as many other European examples.

He was consultant architect planner for the Harlow development and spent the rest of his life living in the town he had designed.

In 1953 he published "Town Design," a book on the forms, processes, and history of the subject.

[edit] Notable buildings

A list of buildings by Frederick Gibberd:

1933-1936, Pullman Court, Streatham, London
1936, Park Court, Sydenham, London
1937-1939, Macclesfield Nurses Home, Cheshire, England
1945-1949, Somerfield Estate, Hackney, London
1946-1963, Nuneaton Town Centre, Warwickshire, England
1949-1951, Lansbury Market, Poplar, London
1950-1969, Terminal Buildings, Heathrow Airport, near London
1952, Market Square, Harlow, Essex, England
1953-1961, Ulster Hospital, Belfast
1956, Bath Technical College, Somerset, England
1956-1968, Civic Centre, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1958, Derwent Reservoir, Durham and Northumberland, England
1958, The Beckers, Rectory Road, Hackney, London
1959-1969, Civic Centre, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
1960-1966, Priory Square, Birmingham, England
1960-1967, Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool, England
1962-1966, Douai Abbey, Berkshire, England
1964, Saint George's Chapel, Heathrow Airport, near London
1964-1968, Didcot Power Station, Berkshire, England
1965 1974, Edmonton Green, Edmonton, London
1966-1975, Arundel Great Court, The Strand
1968-1975, Inter-Continental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner; London
1970-1977, London Central Mosque

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[edit] References

^ Richards, J. M.; Cox, Alan (2004). "Gibberd, Sir Frederick Ernest (1908–1984)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online Edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2008-05-22.