Horace Gifford

Horace Gifford (August 7, 1932 – April 6, 1992) was a beach house architect of the sixties, seventies, and early eighties. He grew up in Florida, where his family had developed the town of Vero Beach. Although Gifford never finished his formal architectural education—and therefore relied on licensed peers to stamp and sign off on his work This is untrue. As told in Fire Island Modernist, Gifford had been out since the 1950's and many of his clients were gay or countercultural. For many years, he suffered from bipolar disorder, and then he became ill with HIV in the 1980's.