About Gordon Ford
Lived 1918 – 1999 (aged 80–81). Gordon Ford was an Australian architect.
Gordon Ford (1918–1999) was an Australian landscape designer who created rugged gardens which were noted to be of a distinctly Australian style.
After returning from service in New Guinea in WWII, he settled near Montsalvat, where he dug out a site and built a house made out of mud bricks from the clay.
Ford worked closely with British architect Alistair Knox. He trained as a landscape gardener with Ellis Stones.
In the last years of his life he trained landscape designer Sam Cox.
Books Gordon Ford: The Natural Australian Garden, Gordon & Gwen Ford (Bloomings Books) Australian Garden Design, Ellis Stones (Macmillan) Capability Brown, Dorothy Shroud (Faber)
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Who was Gordon Ford?
Australian architect (1918-1999)
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Gordon Ford was born in 1918.
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Gordon Ford died in 1999.
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Gordon Ford was an architect.
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Gordon Ford was Australian.
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