Donald Gibson (architect)

He spent his fourth year at Harvard,[2] training in Boston, USA,[3] before returning to the UK to qualify in 1932.

The re-planning of Coventry City Centre began before the Blitz in 1940–1941; indeed, Gibson produced the initial plan to rebuild part of the city in early 1940, in order to resolve the problems of overcrowding and congestion of the medieval town centre.

The redevelopment of the city was featured in a special edition of Architectural Design published in December 1958.

Gibson subsequently knighted and became the government's senior architect, responsible for raising architectural standards.

A half-length portrait of Gibson in oil, by Olwyn Bowey, owned by RIBA,[11] hangs in the Green Room at the Victoria and Albert Museum.