Maxwell Fry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Maxwell Fry

British architect

Date of Birth: 02-Aug-1899

Place of Birth: Wallasey, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 03-Sep-1987

Profession: writer, architect, painter

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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 on an ambitious development to create a 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, aimed at providing high quality low cost housing, in which he 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.