In 1946 he and his wife moved to Amsterdam, where he joined the Public Works Department, for which by the time he left in 1955 he had designed over 60 playgrounds in the interstices of the city. They set out on a series of travels to Africa, to pursue his lifelong fascination with non- European cultures. He became intimately involved with the Cobra group of artists.

He had a classic but unconventional education in England, first at King Alfred School in Hampstead London (1924–32) and subsequently at Sidcot School in Somerset (1932–35), both were progressive schools where the arts, literature and the humanities were highly placed. The residential units are arranged in a staggered formation, thus allowing each of them to have communication with an individual outdoor space and with the internal street. The result is a polycentric building, with a joint of large and small spaces, inside and outside, in successions of units, sets of 9 modules, each defined in its own right, while it is interlaced rhythmically, also with domed covers in This case greater. This first project, although enthusiastically received in Noordwijk, did not get the approval of the executive board in Paris, largely because in making the program for ESTEC had underestimated the space needs of the facility constantly expanding. As a result, the program for the restaurant, library and conference center nearly doubled by adding a number of new office spaces, forcing the relocation of new additions to the large developing area southwest of existing buildings near From the main entrance to the complex down the road.All sensations, when they take artistic form, become immersed in the sensation of light, and therefore can only be expressed with all the colours of the prism. On the outside, the set of vertical towers, lined with prefabricated Iroko wood panels that fit the floor-to-ceiling windows, look more like a cliff than a traditional office building. The wooden panels are topped by a copper band, coinciding with the restaurant. The floor is a continuous flat surface covered with dark gray carpeting, with stone pavers on the doorways towards the exterior. In the lining of the walls, both interior and exterior, also used large wooden panels with openings for vertical windows. Iroko wood was used in the exterior. Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Considering the career of the architect who subverted mainstream thinking by championing place over space

Small scale elaborations were introduced here and there throughout the building. Localised colour concentrations – the small within the large’ Most of the playground he conceived of were small, modest affairs. There was no showy paraphernalia, no zip-wires or intricate climbing frames. Very few of them even had swings. But in the initial caricature these planes were intended not literally, but as a simple metaphor. In their place could be substituted any other element used to define limits and offer opportunities for use. Wide cills, contoured benches, flowing staircases, sculptured handrails and many other elements may all be necessary for a really useful and comfortable building.In the autumn of his life, Gibson developed an alternative theoretical framework, focusing on the animal, the environment, and their relationship at an ecological scale. A central tenet of Gibson’s ecological approach is that the environment we live in does not consist of matter in motion in space; rather it consists of possibilities for action. He coined these possibilities affordances, and defined them as follows.