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Frederick Gibberd

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In 2019, a new school in Harlow was named Sir Frederick Gibberd College. Built by Caledonian Modular from 198 prefabricated modules, the school was forced to close in August 2023 due to concerns about structural irregularities. In December 2023, the DfE confirmed that the college would be demolished
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development and spent the rest of his life living in the town he had designed. His most notable works here include The Lawn, Britain's first modern-style point block, consisting of nine storeys arranged in a butterfly design on an area of open ground surrounded by oak trees; a trompe-l'oeil pair of
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Two staggered wings of offices either side of a service block. Red brick with an emphatic chamfering of angles and a strong vertical accent of load-bearing buttress piers dividing the main elevations into seven and eight bays. The overall impact is of somewhat fortress-like
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curved terraces facing a cricket green at Orchard Croft, which won a British Housing Award in 1951; the pioneering broken-silhouette flats in Morley Grove; and much of the housing in Mark Hall neighbourhood, which is in its entirety a
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He married first Dorothy Phillips, with whom he had one son and two daughters. She died in 1970. He then married Mrs Patricia Fox-Edwards on 30 March 1972. They remained married until his death.
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A further achievement by Gibberd in planning Harlow is his incorporation of works by many leading architects of the postwar years, such as FRS Yorke,
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Gibberd and Yorke collaborated on a number of publications including the influential book
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His architectural firm, Frederick Gibberd Partnership, continues to practise in London.
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1950 Orchard Croft Housing Estate & The Stow (Shopping centre), Harlow,
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in collaboration with Len White and Ben Hyde Harvey. In 1953 he published
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Influential Gardners: The Designers who Shaped 20th-Century Garden Style
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Town Design a book on the forms, processes, and history of the subject
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The Architecture of England: from Norman Times to the Present Day
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a book on the forms, processes, and history of the subject.
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English architect, town planner and landscape designer
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People educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry
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He is particularly known for his work in 978: 917:, London: Mitchell Beazley, p. 186, 897: 811: 779:Homer House, Monson Street, Lincoln 1973 774: 653: 459:A list of buildings by Frederick Gibberd 446: 438: 404: 213:, Gibberd's work was also influenced by 870:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 690:Saint George's Chapel, Heathrow Airport 14: 1260:Alumni of the Birmingham School of Art 1217: 1177:The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire 1164:The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire 912: 1275:Architects of the Liturgical Movement 1086: 1060: 1034: 485:1937–1939, Macclesfield Nurses Home, 233:, London (1936) and Ellington Court, 935: 933: 898:Wilkinson, Damon (23 January 2022). 400: 1003: 864:Richards, J. 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Index

Gibberd
Coventry
Pullman Court
Harlow New Town
The Gibberd Garden
London Central Mosque
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
CBE
RA
town planner
landscape designer
Harlow
BISF house
council house
post-war
Coventry
tailor
King Henry VIII School
Birmingham
William Bidlake
Birmingham School of Art
F. R. S. Yorke
Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe
Le Corbusier
Mies van der Rohe
F. R. S. Yorke
Pullman Court
Sydenham
Southgate
Second World War

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