Maxwell Fry and his wife Jane Drew, in 1984, at Lartington Hall on the occasion of a dinner to celebrate his 85th birthday
Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987), was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
Originally trained in the neo-classical style of architecture, Fry grew to favour the new modernist style, and practised with eminent colleagues including Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. Fry was a major influence on a generation of young architects. Among the younger colleagues with whom he worked was Denys Lasdun.
In the 1940s, Fry designed buildings for West African countries that were then part of the British Empire, including Ghana and Nigeria. In the 1950s, he and his wife, the architect Jane Drew, worked for three years with Le Corbusier on an ambitious development to create the new capital city of Punjab at Chandigarh.
Fry's works in Britain range from railway stations to private houses to large corporate headquarters. Among his best known works in the UK is the Kensal House flats in Ladbroke Grove, London, designed with Walter Gropius, which was aimed at providing high quality low cost housing, on which Fry and Gropius also collaborated with Elizabeth Denby to set new standards.
Fry's writings include critical and descriptive books on town planning and architecture, notably his Art in a Machine Age. His last book was the Autobiographical Sketches of his life from boyhood up to the time of his marriage to Jane Drew.
Edwin MaxwellFry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as MaxwellFry (2 August 1899 – 3 September 1987), was an English modernist architect, writer and painter...
and Iran. With her second husband, MaxwellFry, she worked in West Africa designing schools and universities. She, Fry and Pierre Jeanneret, designed the...
the city were designed by a team headed by Le Corbusier, Jane Drew and MaxwellFry. Chandigarh's Capitol Complex—as part of a global ensemble of Corbusier's...
Ladbroke Grove, London, completed in 1937 and designed by the architect MaxwellFry. It was the first modernist block in the UK designed to be occupied by...
India. Jeanneret, in collaboration with the English husband-wife team of MaxwellFry and Jane Drew, was responsible for much of Chandigarh's large civic architecture...
original on 21 July 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2019. Fry, Naomi (16 August 2019). "The Gall of Ghislaine Maxwell". The New Yorker. Archived from the original...
of Cambridgeshire. The buildings of 1938–1939 by Walter Gropius and MaxwellFry are Grade I listed. The school opened in 1939, two weeks after the outbreak...
with tropical vernacular designs. Some notable practitioners include: MaxwellFry and Jane Drew. This couple of British architects were active in British...
Nigeria. It was designed in 1965 by the English architects Jane Drew and MaxwellFry. As of 2016, it is used mostly for football matches. The stadium has...
towns). In 1943, British architect MaxwellFry launched a simultaneous effort to plan the Gold Coast's cities. Fry prepared blueprints for the future...
Prempeh College was designed in 1948 by British modernist architects MaxwellFry and Jane Drew. Compared to other works by Jane Drew in the Ashanti region...
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represent Britain at their events. Shand, along with Wells Coates, chose MaxwellFry and F. R. S. Yorke as the founding members. They were also joined by...
In 1962 the idea was made into a proposal by architects Jane Drew and MaxwellFry and civil engineer Ove Arup. They considered that raising the temples...
architects, notably the one at Impington designed by Walter Gropius and MaxwellFry. Between the implementation of the Education Act 1944 and Cambridgeshire's...
than with much of modern architecture. He admired Giles Gilbert Scott, MaxwellFry, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto and others, but found many contemporary...
station. Thomas Page, the engineer, grew up in Romaldkirk. The architects MaxwellFry and Jane Drew, and famous farmer Hannah Hauxwell are buried near the...
worked briefly for Erno Goldfinger, Denys Lasdun, the partnership of MaxwellFry and Jane Drew, and applied unsuccessfully for a post at London County...
Conveners: A.Hippisley Coxe and S. D. Cooke.) The New Schools. (Architects: MaxwellFry and Jane Drew. Theme Convener: B. W. Rowe. Display Designers: Nevile...
British specialists in urban design and tropical climate architecture, MaxwellFry and Jane Drew, and with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, who moved to India...
Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped 2,000 to 4...
university's first buildings were designed by eminent modernist architects MaxwellFry and Jane Drew. Following the tropical modernist style, the 1950s construction...
experimental modernism". From 1936 to 1937 he worked for Walter Gropius and MaxwellFry, in the short period that Gropius was in the UK. After World War II he...
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