Frederick Gibberd
Videos
Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd CBE was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer. He is particularly known for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, his work in Harlow, Essex, and for the wi
Gibberd in 1950
Pullman Court
Harlow shopping centre in June 1963
Ellington Court, Southgate
BISF house
Videos
The BISF house is a type of steel-framed prefabricated house that was built in large numbers in England, Scotland and Wales from 1946. It was designed and produced by the British Iron and Steel Federa
Frederick Gibberd
…planner and landscape designer. He is particularly known for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, his work in Harlow, Essex, and for the widely adopted BISF house. 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…
Original (right) and externally cladded (left) BISF type houses at Moss Road and Bardrainney Avenue, Port Glasgow
New BISF house on a Ministry of Works experimental housing estate at Northolt
BISF houses on Ashcroft Road Tin Town, Luton