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Edwin Maxwell Fry, usually known as Maxwell Fry (born 2 August 1899; died 3 September 1987) was an English modernist architect. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixels Full resolution (3840 × 2160 pixel, file size: 3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 450 pixels Full resolution (3840 × 2160 pixel, file size: 3. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem - the United Kingdom anthem God Save the Queen is commonly used England() – on the European continent() – in the United Kingdom() Capital (and largest city) London (de facto) Official languages English (de facto)1 Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Monarch Queen Elizabeth II... For Christian theological modernism, see Liberal Christianity and Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ... An architect at his drawing board, 1893 An architect is a person who is involved in the planning, designing and oversight of a buildings construction. ...

He was trained at the School of Architecture at the University of Liverpool. The University of Liverpool is a university in the city of Liverpool, England. ...

Maxwell Fry was one of the few modernist architects in working in Britain in the thirties who was British; most were emigrants from continental Europe where modernism originated. In 1933 he co-founded the MARS Group, a modernist architectural think tank. The Modern Architectural Research Group, or MARS Group, was a British architectural think tank founded in 1933 by several prominent architects and architectural critics of the time involved in the British modernist movement. ...

His best known buildings are Kensal House, in Kensal Green, London, a pioneering example of social housing, completed in 1937, and Impington Village College, in Impington in Cambridgeshire designed in collaboration with Walter Gropius. Kensal Green is a neighbourhood in the London Borough of Brent. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Impington windmill by Mark Claessen Impington is a village in Cambridgeshire some 4km North of the city of Cambridge, England. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 18, 1883 – July 5, 1969) was a German architect and founder of Bauhaus. ...

During World War II he worked in Nigeria, where he designed buildings for the University of Ibadan. Later he worked with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh where he worked on much of the housing. Together with his wife Jane Drew, also an architect, he published a book about tropical architecture. Fry and Drew designed one of the buildings for the Festival of Britain. Fry and Drew worked with Denys Lasdun on the design of the Usk Street Housing Estate in Bethnal Green 1955 - 8. Both Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew often collaborated with and were close friends of Ove Arup, the founder of the engineering firm Arup.^[1] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The University of Ibadan is Nigerias oldest university, and is located five miles (8 kilometres) from the centre of the major city of Ibadan in Western Nigeria. ... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965), was a Swiss and later French, (Swiss-born) architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. ... , Chandigarh   (Punjabi: , Hindi: , pronunciation: ) also called The City Beautiful , is a city in India that serves as the capital of two states: Punjab and Haryana. ... The Festival of Britain emblem, designed by Abram Games, from the cover of the South Bank Exhibition Guide, 1951 The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which opened in London and around Britain in May 1951. ... Sir Denys Lasdun (8 September 1914-11 January 2001) was an eminent English architect of the 20th century, particularly associated with the Modernist design of the Royal National Theatre on Londons South Bank of the River Thames. ... Sir Ove Nyquist Arup CBE, MICE, MIStructE, (born at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1895 and died in 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered the foremost engineer of his time. ... Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. ...

As Fry, Drew and Partners the pairs major commission is the headquarters of Pilkington Glass in St. Helens. The building includes a number of modernist art commissions with works by Victor Pasmore. Pilkington Glass is a well-known British glass manufacturer. ... Synthetic Construction (White and Black) 1965-66 Victor Pasmore (born 3 December 1908 in Chelsham Surrey - died 23 January 1998) was a British artist and architect. ...

Maxwell Fry won the Royal Institute of British Architects gold medal in 1964. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom. ...

Publications

• Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones.
• K. Joshi, E. M. Fry, J. Drew, Documenting Chandigarh: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell Fry, Jane Beverly Drew ISBN 1-890206-13-X.

References

• From Here to Modernity: Maxwell Fry

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