Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd CBE was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer.
10 Facts About Frederick Gibberd
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Frederick Gibberd is particularly known for his work in Harlow, Essex, and for the BISF house, a design for a prefabricated council house that was widely adopted in post-war Britain.
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Frederick Gibberd set up in practice in 1930, designing Pullman Court, Streatham Hill, London, a housing development which launched his career.
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Frederick Gibberd designed the BISF house, a prefabricated form of council housing sponsored by the British Iron and Steel Federation and widely adopted by local authorities in Britain in the postwar years.
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Frederick Gibberd was consultant architect-planner for the Harlow new town development and spent the rest of his life living in the town he had designed.
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Frederick Gibberd's similarly pioneering Sports Centre has been demolished, as has the original town hall.
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Frederick Gibberd wrote Harlow: The story of a New Town in collaboration with Len White and Ben Hyde Harvey.
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Frederick Gibberd married first Dorothy Phillips, with whom he had one son and two daughters.
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Frederick Gibberd then married Mrs Patricia Fox-Edwards on 30 March 1972.
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Frederick Gibberd was made a CBE in 1954 and knighted in 1967.