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Died
  
1999

Nationality
  
Australian


Occupation
  
Architect

Name
  
Gordon Ford

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WKU: Gordon Ford College of Business Spring 2019 Recognition Ceremony


Gordon Ford (1918–1999) created ruggedly beautiful gardens in a distinctly Australian style.

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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 Eltham architect, Alistair Knox. He trained as a landscape gardener with Ellis Stones.

In the last years of his life he, in turn, 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)
  • References

    Gordon Ford Wikipedia