By Iain Jackson
Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew have been pioneers of recent structure in Britain and its former colonies from the overdue Twenties via to the early Seventies. As a barometer of 20th century structure, their paintings lines the key cultural advancements of that century from the improvement of modernism, its unfold into the late-colonial enviornment and at last, to its re-assessment that led to a extra expressive, formalist strategy within the post-war era.This e-book completely examines Fry and Drew's hugely influential 'Tropical structure' in West Africa and India, while additionally discussing their British paintings, comparable to their put up international warfare II initiatives for the pageant of england, Harlow New city, Pilkington Brothers' Headquarters and Coychurch Crematorium. It highlights the collaborative nature of Fry and Drew's paintings, together with schemes undertaken with Elizabeth Denby, Walter Gropius, Denys Lasdun, Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier. Positioning their structure, writing and academic endeavours inside a much broader context, this e-book illustrates the numerous creative and cultural contributions made by way of Fry and Drew all through their long careers
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1955 Introduction 7 the architect as the ‘expert’ dispensing solutions. Travelling exhibitions were also organized throughout West Africa including one for Kumasi, which required police intervention following the crowds of visitors. Their design recommendations were often simple and ‘hands-on’, such as the pragmatic placing of road junctions and designing to follow contours along with methods of lightening the burden of domestic chores and sanitation. With regards to housing, their work investigated various solutions but concluded that the ‘traditional’ compound arrangement, if built soundly with adequate crossventilation, was the most appropriate type, and that the best people to design the housing were the people living in the villages themselves.
Indeed, Fry’s Liverpool professors Charles Reilly and Arthur Trystan Edwards (1884–1973) had made vociferous protestations against alterations to Regent Street and it seems Fry was following in their outrage. 95 Edwards’s views on manners in architecture may be traced back to his writing for the Town Planning Review. 98 This attempt to establish a critical framework for aesthetic critique would continue throughout the interwar period and was taken up by Fry and his modernist colleagues, as we will see.
Fry would have been aware of this plan due to Thompson’s involvement and he later used the findings of this project for his proposed plan of London developed with the MARS Group. Fry’s bohemian Chelsea network led to a friendship with the wealthy interior designer, Ned Groghan. 121 Groghan’s connections led to a commission for Fry to design a large house, which is likely to have been Ridge End in the affluent Surrey village of Virginia Water. 122 Fry worked incessantly on the project, but the extended time spent resulted in very little profit.
