Sir Frederick Ernest Gibberd RA (7 January 1908 – 9 January 1984) was an English architect, town planner and landscape designer.

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 articled to a firm of architects in Birmingham and studied architecture under William Bidlake at the Birmingham School of Art, where his roommate was F. R. S. Yorke.

A good friend of Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe, Gibberd's work was influenced by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and F. R. S. Yorke. He set up in practice in 1930, designing Pullman Court, Streatham Hill, London (1934–36), a housing development which launched his career. With the success of this scheme, Gibberd became established as the 'flat' architect and went on to build several other schemes including Park Court, Sydenham, London (1936) and Ellington Court, Southgate, London (1936) continuing to practise until the outbreak of the Second World War.

Gibberd and Yorke collaborated on a number of publications including the influential book The Modern Flat, which was published in 1937 and featured the then newly completed Pullman Court and Park Court, as well as many other European examples.

He was consultant architect planner for the Harlow 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 tromp-l'oeil pair of 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 conservation area. The Harvey Centre lacks architectural distinction, but is notable as an early British example of a large purpose-built indoor shopping mall. His similarly pioneering Sports Centre has been demolished, as has the original town hall. The Water Gardens, although listed by English Heritage, have been spoilt by the abutment of a car park and shopping centre. The garden of his personal home at Marsh Lane (Gibberd Garden), on the outskirts of Harlow, a mixture of formal and informal design, contains architectural elements salvaged from his reconstruction of Coutts Bank in London.

A further achievement by Gibberd in planning Harlow is his incorporation of works by many leading architects of the post-war years, such as FRS Yorke, Powell & Moya, Graham Dawbarn, John Poulson, Maxwell Fry & Jane Drew, Michael Neylan, William Crabtree, Leonard Manasseh, ECP Monson, Gerard Goalen, Gerald Lacoste, Richard Sheppard and H. T. Cadbury-Brown. A substantial collection of public sculptures is visible around the town, including works by Henry Moore, Elizabeth Frink, Auguste Rodin and Barbara Hepworth.

Gibberd wrote Harlow: The story of a New Town in collaboration with Len White and Ben Hyde Harvey. In 1953 he published Town Design a book on the forms, processes, and history of the subject.

His architectural firm, Frederick Gibberd Partnership, continues to practice in London

Notable buildings:

1. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

2. Harlow New Town

3. London Central Mosque

4. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

5. Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire, England

A list of buildings by Frederick Gibberd:

1.        1933–1936, Pullman Court, Streatham, London

2.        1936, Park Court, Sydenham, London

3.        1937, Ellington Court, Southgate, London

4.        1937–1939, Macclesfield Nurses Home, Cheshire, England

5.        1945–1949, Somerford Estate, Hackney, London

6.        1946–1963, Nuneaton Town Centre, Warwickshire, England

7.        1949–1951, Chrisp Street Market and associated housing, Poplar, London (part of the Lansbury Estate)

8.        1950 Orchard Croft Housing Estate & The Stow (Shopping centre), Harlow, Essex, England

9.        1950–1969, Terminal Buildings, Heathrow Airport, near London (including the old Terminal 1, Terminal 2, and Queens Building)

10.        1951, The Lawn, Harlow, Essex, England

11.        1952, Market Square, Harlow, Essex, England

12.        1953–1961, Ulster Hospital, Belfast

13.        1956, Bath Technical College, Somerset, England

14.        1956–1968, Civic Centre, Saint Albans, Hertfordshire, England

15.        1958, Derwent Reservoir, Durham and Northumberland, England

16.        1958, The Beckers, Rectory Road, Hackney, London

17.        1958–1961, Kingsgate Estate, Hackney, London[4]

18.        1959–1969, Civic Centre, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England

19.        1962, College of Technology, Kingston-Upon-Hull, England

20.        1959–1968, Fulwell Cross Library, Ilford

21.        1960–1966, Priory Square, Birmingham, England

22.        Fulwell Cross Library, Ilford

23.        1960–1967, Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool, England

24.        1961, Morley Grove Flats, Harlow, Essex, England

25.        1962–1966, Douai Abbey, Berkshire, England

26.        1964, Saint George's Chapel, Heathrow Airport, near London

27.        1964, Water Gardens, Harlow, Essex, England

28.        1965, Chapel, De La Salle College, Middleton, Lancashire, England

29.        1964–1968, Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire, England

30.        1965–1974, Edmonton Green, Edmonton, London

31.        1966–1975, Arundel Great Court, The Strand, London

32.        1968–1975, Inter-Continental Hotel, Hyde Park Corner, London

33.        1969, Coutts Bank Headquarters, The Strand, London

34.        1970-1975, 10 Spring Gardens, British Council headquarters

35.        1970–1977, London Central Mosque

36.        1972, Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa

37.        1973, Homer House, Monson Street, Lincoln, England. Described by Pevsner as 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 austerity.

38.        1973-1974. Thomas Cooper Memorial Chapel, High Street, Lincoln, England.

39.        1980, The Harvey Centre, Harlow, Essex, England

• London Central Mosque