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Frederick Gibberd (Paperback)
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Frederick Gibberd (Paperback)
Series: Twentieth Century Architects
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This book gives, for the first time, a comprehensive account of the
works of architect, town planner and landscape architect, Sir
Frederick Gibberd. At the beginning of his diverse and far-reaching
career, Gibberd was a pioneer of modern architecture in Britain -
he designed Pullman Court in 1933, one of the first International
Style buildings in the country. His association with the Modern
Architectural Research (MARS) Group and his influential
publications put him at the forefront of the establishment of
modern architecture in Britain. During the 1940s, however,
Gibberd's interest shifted to the aesthetics of English market
towns and Georgian streets; his diaries reveal a belief that the
Modern Movement had 'done its job', allowing architects to consider
the visual, rather than functional qualities of materials, colour
and texture. After the Second World War, his master plan for Harlow
New Town and his influential book Town Design conveyed his growing
interest in 'visual planning'; he had become an international
authority on the subject. His later projects, Liverpool
Metropolitan Cathedral (1967) and Regent's Park Mosque (1977) for
example, also reflected his aesthetic approach, prompting many to
question his role as a key figure in the history of modern British
architecture. This reassessment of Gibberd's work demonstrates,
that with his visual approach to the design of buildings, spaces,
townscapes and landscapes, Gibberd was at the forefront of the
development of a softer, distinctly English form of modern
architecture and town planning, thus, reaffirming his role as a
significant architect of the 20th century.
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