Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry, was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
Fry was elected ARA in 1966 and advanced to RA in 1972. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, had a one-man show in 1974 at the Drian Gallery in London, and continued painting in his retirement. He served on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he was vice-president in 1961–2. He was awarded the institute's Royal Gold Medal in 1964. He also served on the Royal Fine Arts Commission and on the council of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed CBE in 1955, was elected a corresponding member of the Acádemie Flamande in 1956, and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1963. He was an honorary LLD of Ibadan University. Towards the end of his life he became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.
He and his second wife, Jane Drew, pioneered in the field of modern tropical building and town planning.
One of the earliest British adherents to the modern movement, Fry was trained at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. In 1924 he joined the town-planning firm of Adams and Thompson in London. Renouncing Classical architecture, he wrote that he saw "no place for it in a technocratic world." His early work shows the strong influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International style in architecture.
In 1946 Fry and Drew (married 1942) formed the firm of Fry, Drew and Partners, London, specializing in large-scale planning for tropical countries. Among the many tropical buildings they designed are those of the University of Ibadan (1953–59), Nigeria. Their books Village Housing in the Tropics (1947; with Harry L. Ford) and Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone (1956) are considered standard works.
The Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier invited Fry and Drew to join him in 1951 on the project to build Chandigarh, the new capital city of the state of Punjab (from 1966 joint capital of Punjab and Haryana) in India. In their houses there Fry and Drew employed canopies and deep recesses for sun-sheltering purposes.
Fry's other important written works are The Bauhaus and the Modern Movement (1968) and Art in a Machine Age (1969).
On his retirement in 1973, Fry and his wife moved from London to a cottage in Cotherstone, County Durham, and he died at Darlington in 1987 at the age of 88.
Fry was elected ARA in 1966 and advanced to RA in 1972. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, had a one-man show in 1974 at the Drian Gallery in London, and continued painting in his retirement. He served on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he was vice-president in 1961–2. He was awarded the institute's Royal Gold Medal in 1964. He also served on the Royal Fine Arts Commission and on the council of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed CBE in 1955, was elected a corresponding member of the Acádemie Flamande in 1956, and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1963. He was an honorary LLD of Ibadan University. Towards the end of his life he became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.
He and his second wife, Jane Drew, pioneered in the field of modern tropical building and town planning.
One of the earliest British adherents to the modern movement, Fry was trained at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. In 1924 he joined the town-planning firm of Adams and Thompson in London. Renouncing Classical architecture, he wrote that he saw "no place for it in a technocratic world." His early work shows the strong influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International style in architecture.
In 1946 Fry and Drew (married 1942) formed the firm of Fry, Drew and Partners, London, specializing in large-scale planning for tropical countries. Among the many tropical buildings they designed are those of the University of Ibadan (1953–59), Nigeria. Their books Village Housing in the Tropics (1947; with Harry L. Ford) and Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone (1956) are considered standard works.
The Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier invited Fry and Drew to join him in 1951 on the project to build Chandigarh, the new capital city of the state of Punjab (from 1966 joint capital of Punjab and Haryana) in India. In their houses there Fry and Drew employed canopies and deep recesses for sun-sheltering purposes.
Fry's other important written works are The Bauhaus and the Modern Movement (1968) and Art in a Machine Age (1969).
On his retirement in 1973, Fry and his wife moved from London to a cottage in Cotherstone, County Durham, and he died at Darlington in 1987 at the age of 88.
Edwin Maxwell Fry, CBE, RA, FRIBA, FRTPI, known as Maxwell Fry, was an English modernist architect, writer and painter.
Fry was elected ARA in 1966 and advanced to RA in 1972. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, had a one-man show in 1974 at the Drian Gallery in London, and continued painting in his retirement. He served on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he was vice-president in 1961–2. He was awarded the institute's Royal Gold Medal in 1964. He also served on the Royal Fine Arts Commission and on the council of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed CBE in 1955, was elected a corresponding member of the Acádemie Flamande in 1956, and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1963. He was an honorary LLD of Ibadan University. Towards the end of his life he became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.
He and his second wife, Jane Drew, pioneered in the field of modern tropical building and town planning.
One of the earliest British adherents to the modern movement, Fry was trained at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. In 1924 he joined the town-planning firm of Adams and Thompson in London. Renouncing Classical architecture, he wrote that he saw "no place for it in a technocratic world." His early work shows the strong influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International style in architecture.
In 1946 Fry and Drew (married 1942) formed the firm of Fry, Drew and Partners, London, specializing in large-scale planning for tropical countries. Among the many tropical buildings they designed are those of the University of Ibadan (1953–59), Nigeria. Their books Village Housing in the Tropics (1947; with Harry L. Ford) and Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone (1956) are considered standard works.
The Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier invited Fry and Drew to join him in 1951 on the project to build Chandigarh, the new capital city of the state of Punjab (from 1966 joint capital of Punjab and Haryana) in India. In their houses there Fry and Drew employed canopies and deep recesses for sun-sheltering purposes.
Fry's other important written works are The Bauhaus and the Modern Movement (1968) and Art in a Machine Age (1969).
On his retirement in 1973, Fry and his wife moved from London to a cottage in Cotherstone, County Durham, and he died at Darlington in 1987 at the age of 88.
Fry was elected ARA in 1966 and advanced to RA in 1972. He exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, had a one-man show in 1974 at the Drian Gallery in London, and continued painting in his retirement. He served on the council of the Royal Institute of British Architects, of which he was vice-president in 1961–2. He was awarded the institute's Royal Gold Medal in 1964. He also served on the Royal Fine Arts Commission and on the council of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed CBE in 1955, was elected a corresponding member of the Acádemie Flamande in 1956, and an honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 1963. He was an honorary LLD of Ibadan University. Towards the end of his life he became Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.
He and his second wife, Jane Drew, pioneered in the field of modern tropical building and town planning.
One of the earliest British adherents to the modern movement, Fry was trained at the School of Architecture, University of Liverpool. In 1924 he joined the town-planning firm of Adams and Thompson in London. Renouncing Classical architecture, he wrote that he saw "no place for it in a technocratic world." His early work shows the strong influence of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a leading proponent of the International style in architecture.
In 1946 Fry and Drew (married 1942) formed the firm of Fry, Drew and Partners, London, specializing in large-scale planning for tropical countries. Among the many tropical buildings they designed are those of the University of Ibadan (1953–59), Nigeria. Their books Village Housing in the Tropics (1947; with Harry L. Ford) and Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone (1956) are considered standard works.
The Swiss-born architect Le Corbusier invited Fry and Drew to join him in 1951 on the project to build Chandigarh, the new capital city of the state of Punjab (from 1966 joint capital of Punjab and Haryana) in India. In their houses there Fry and Drew employed canopies and deep recesses for sun-sheltering purposes.
Fry's other important written works are The Bauhaus and the Modern Movement (1968) and Art in a Machine Age (1969).
On his retirement in 1973, Fry and his wife moved from London to a cottage in Cotherstone, County Durham, and he died at Darlington in 1987 at the age of 88.
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1899 – 1987
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1911 – 1996
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