Alexander Frederick Berenbruck Anderson was born in Nenthorn, Berwickshire, Scotland on 22 July 1888. By 1901 he had moved to London. He studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and from 1924 to the late 1940s was in partnership with Robert Atkinson (1883-1952) in London.
Anderson was elected an Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) and In 1937 was awarded the RIBA London Architecture Bronze Medal.
His address was given as 126 Wigmore Street, London in 1933; Braeside, Beechway, Gerrards Cross in 1933 and 1939; and 13 Manchester Square, London in 1935 and 1939.
He died in Midhurst, Sussex in 1968.
Atkinson, Robert and Anderson, A. F. B. Anderson. 'Hospital for the Canadian Red Cross'. Architecture Illustrated October 1942 pp. 115-125 [Hospital designed for the Candian Red Cross in England by Atkinson and Anderson]
‘Electricity offices and showrooms, Croydon’. Architecture Illustrated February 1943 pp. 15-24 [Architects: Robert Atkinson and A. F. B. Anderson]
‘Gibraltar housing’. Building July 1949 pp. 254-259 [Architects: Robert Atkinson and A. F. B. Anderson]
‘Gibraltar housing scheme [flat blocks]’ RIBA Journal July 1946 pp. 395-400 [Architects: R. Atkinson & A. F. B. Anderson]
'Government housing scheme, Gibraltar’. The Builder 14 January 1949 pp. 67-70 [Architects: R. Atkinson and A. F. B. Anderson]
'Head offices for the Gas Light & Coke Co, London’. Architectural Design & Construction June 1942 p. 121 [Designed by: Robert Atkinson & A. F. B. Anderson]
'Head offices for the Gas Light & Coke Co, London’. Architecture Illustrated May 1942 p. 59 [Designed by: Robert Atkinson & A. F. B. Anderson]
'Stockleigh Hall, Regent's Park. A block of luxury flats awarded the R. I. B. A. London Architecture Medal, 1938’ Architect & Building News May 20 1938 p.210 [Architects: Robert Atkinson and A. F. B. Anderson]
‘Obituary’. Building vol. 215, 25 October 1968 p. 105
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001