BHX MOD SOC MAP_GLOSSARY: Frederick Gibberd

Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer.He was born in Coventry and was articled to a firm of architects in Birmingham and studied architecture under William Bidlake at the Birmingham School of Art.

He became involved in the Modern Architectural Research Group(MARS), one of a number of initiatives which hoped to promote Modernism in Britain. As an enthusiastic Modernist, the principles adopted by MARS would have a profound effect on his early career.

Relevant Works

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Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

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London Central Mosque

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angela Yanes. Level 5 architecture student

 

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