Mr Ken Gibbs

Surviving the Sixties Mr Ken Gibbs

The Autobiography of Ken Gibbs, a prominent British architect from the 1960s onwards Life is full of surprises...

Whether or not we feel we know what we're doing there are some very surprising surprises and my life seemed to be more than usually full of them.



It was generally fortunate for me that chance often seemed, though certainly not always, on my side.



Anyway, this true tale is very much of its time, though it was a tale I did not predict; at least not all of it!



So what's it all about?



The Army, Architecture, Administration, Music, Travelling and, of course, Home life, Education and the Family.



Impossible to sum up simply so let's say:

Threatening Thirties; Wartime Forties; Fumbling Fifties, the Sixties (of course); Searching Seventies; Enigmatic Eighties - (including my Sixties); Normalcy Nineties; Maximizing Millennium; Tantalizing Teens...