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Dame Jane Drew, DBE, FRIBA (24 March 1911 – 27 July 1996) was an English modernist architect and town planner. She qualified at the AA School in London, and prior to World War II became one of the leading exponents of the Modern Movement in London.

At the time she had her first office, with the idea of employing only female architects, architecture was a male dominated profession. She was active during and after World War II, designing social and public housing in England, West Africa, India and Iran. With her second husband Maxwell Fry she worked in West Africa designing schools and universities, and with Fry and Pierre Jeanneret, on the housing at Chandigarh, the new capital of the Punjab. She designed buildings in Ghana, Nigeria, Iran and Sri Lanka, and she wrote books on what she had learnt about architecture there. In London she did social housing, buildings for the Festival of Britain, and helped to establish the Institute of Contemporary Arts. After retiring from practice she travelled and lectured abroad, receiving several honorary degrees. She was awarded the DBE in the 1996 New Years Honours List, seven months before her death.

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Life

Early life (1911–1928)

Drew was born as Iris Estelle Radcliffe Drew[1] in Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey, but her name was registered a few days later as Joyce Beverly Drew.[2] Her father, Harry Guy Radcliffe Drew, was a designer of surgical instruments and the founder of the British Institute of Surgical Technicians. He was a humanist who "despised the profit motive and abhorred cruelty". Her mother was Emma Spering Jones, a school teacher, who when Jane was only four became lame for the rest of her life as the result of a road accident: but she continued to care well for her two daughters, encouraging them in her two main interests which were observation of nature and appreciation of art, and she had a keen business sense. Her sister, Dorothy Drew, was a physician.

Jane Drew was educated at Woodford House School in Croydon then at Croydon High School. Among her friends at Woodford House were actresses Peggy Ashcroft and Diana Wynyard; and at Croydon High she was friends with the mural artist and book illustrator Barbara Jones (1912-1978), and the popular women's rights campaigner Beatrice "Nancy" Seear, later Baroness Seear.

Pre-war (1929–1939)

Jane studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (1929-1934). In 1933 she married architect James Alliston, who had been a fellow-student at the AA. They won a competition for a hospital in Devon, after which she joined Alliston's practice. Their small practice (Alliston & Drew) was at 24 Woburn Square in London, and their principal work was housing in Winchester. Jane and Jim had twin daughters, Jennifer and Georgina (born 1937), but the marriage was dissolved in 1939.

Modern Movement

Jane Drew soon became involved in the Modern Movement, through the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), whose guiding spirit was the Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and became one of the principal founders of the Modern Movement in Britain, which was represented by MARS (Modern Architectural ReSearch), CIAM's British subsidiary. It was an association of architects, painters and industrialists, and its stated principle was the "use of space for human activity rather than the manipulation of stylised convention". It was through this group that she met and made great friends with Henry Moore, Le Corbusier, Elizabeth Lutyens, and most importantly Maxwell Fry (one of the co-founders of the movement) whom she married in 1942.

War time (1939–1945)

Architecture at the time was a male-dominated profession. When Jane practised alone in the war years between 1939 and 1944, her office was at 12 King Street, St. James, London. Initially she employed only female architects, though later this changed. Her work included:

  • 1940 Walton Yacht Works at Walton on Thames, near London
  • 1941 Kitchen Planning Exhibition, Dorland Hall, Lower Regent Street, London
  • 1941-1943 Consultancy to the British Commercial Gas Association 'designed by women for women'
  • 1943 The 'Rebuilding Britain' exhibition at the National Gallery, London
  • 1944 Temporary office at 12 Bedford Square after the King Street office was bombed (with Riehm Marcus, Trevor Dannatt, K. Linden and F.I. Marcus)
  • 1944-1945 Assistant Planning Adviser to the Resident Minister for the West African Colonies

Post-war period (1946–1959)

After the war she into business partnership with Maxwell Fry as Fry, Drew and Partners, then later with others. From January 1946 their practice was at 63 Gloucester Place, London W.1. (above which she and Max had a flat which was their home)[3], and in 1962 a second office was opened at 3 Albany Terrace. She was in practice with Max until 1977.

  • 1946-1950 Practised as Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew
  • 1946-1962 Jane was founder-editor and joint editor (with Trevor Dannatt) of the Architects' Year Book, brainchild of publisher Paul Elek
  • 1946 The 'Britain Can Make It' exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
  • 1948 Ghana: Mampong Teacher's Training College and Prempeh College in Kumasi (with Maxwell Fry)
  • 1949 Hospital building for the Kuwait Oil Company
  • 1949 Harlow New Town: The Chantry and Tanys Dell estates: 3- & 4-bedroom terraced houses (with Maxwell Fry)
  • 1950 Ghana: Adisadel College and Wesley Girls' High School in the town of Cape Coast (with Maxwell Fry)
  • 1950 Passfields flats in Lewisham, London (with Maxwell Fry)
  • 1950 Interior design for the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) at 17/18 Dover Street, London (with Maxwell Fry, and the collaboration of Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson, Neil Morris and Terence Conran). Jane played an important part in its relocation to Carlton House Terrace in 1964.
  • 1951-1958 Practised as Fry, Drew, Drake and Lasdun (with Lindsey Drake and Denys Lasdun)
  • 1951 New Schools building, the Waterloo entrance tower and the Riverside Restaurant [4] for the Festival of Britain (with Maxwell Fry)
  • 1951-1954 In collaboration with Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret, Jane and Max worked as senior architects on much of the housing of Chandigarh, the new capital of western part of the divided Punjab in India. Jane persuaded Le Corbusier to involve himself in the project and he redesigned Albert Meyer's original master plan. Le Corbusier left most of the design to Jane, Max and Jeanneret, and they had the collaboration of a team of Indian architects (including B. V. Doshi) on this vast project.

Other works

  • 1953-1959 Buildings in Ibadan, Nigeria: the University College (with Maxwell Fry), the Cooperative Bank, and an Assembly Hall and Maisonettes
  • 1953 Flats at Whitefoot Lane, Downham Estate, Lewisham, London (with Maxwell Fry)
  • 1955 Housing at Masjid-i-Suleiman (the first oil site in the middle east) for Oil Company employees and planning of a new oilfield town at Gachsaran, South Iran
  • 1955-1958 Worked with Denys Lasdun on the design of the Usk Street Housing Estate in Bethnal Green, London
  • 1958-1973 Practised as Fry, Drew and Partners (with Frank Knight and Norman Creamer)
  • 1959 Cooperative Bank, Offices and Shop, Lagos, Nigeria
  • 1959 Cooperative Bank, Assembly Hall and Maisonettes, Ibadan, Nigeria
  • 1959 Gulf House, Gulf Oil Company, London

Later years (1960–1978)

Retirement (1978–1996)

Party at The Lake House, 1981
Jane Drew at West Lodge, 1991

Max had retired in 1973, but Jane continued working until 1978. They already had a country 'retreat' called "The Lake House", at Rowfant near Crawley in Sussex, where they often spent leisure time with friends and family. It was a large house, to which they added a studio-flat which literally overlooked the fishing lake, and Jane presided over many memorable house and garden parties. Eventually they decided to sell it and find somewhere easier to manage in their retirement. They were staying with a friend in Cotherstone, Teesdale, County Durham when they heard that the next door house was for sale and almost immediately bought it. In 1983 they moved to "West Lodge". They remained active, in making a new home, with gardening and village social life. There was a studio for Max - their living room was dominated by Max's mural of the River Balder Railway viaduct.

In 1984, Jane gave a great party for Max's 85th birthday, at nearby Lartington Hall: there were over 200 guests - friends and family. Two years later she was presented with a 150-page book of gratulari inscribed "Jane B. Drew, architect. A tribute from colleagues and friends for her 75th birthday, 24 March 1986"[5].The list of contributors includes:

Maxwell Fry (Introductory Poem), Jean Sabbagh [6], Síle Flower[7],Lesley Donaldson [8], Maurice Down [9], Leonie Cohn [10], Hugh Crallan [11], Michael Thornley [12], Ruth Plant [13], Phyllis Dobbs [14], Ed Lewis [15], Dorothy Morland [16], Maud Hatmil[17], Diana Rowntree [18], Rodney Thomas [19], John Terry [20], Trevor Dannatt[21], Riehm Marcus [22], Anthony Bell [23], Norman Creamer [24], Peter Dunican[25], Luke Gertler [26], Frank Knight[27], John Lomax and Heather Hughes [28], Joan Cheverton [29], Stephen Macfarlane [30], Lleky Papastavrou and Penelope "Penny" Hughes[31], Otto Koenigsberger [32], Theo Crosby [33], Norman and Kay Starrett[34], Geoffrey Knight[35], Minnette de Silva [36], Ian Robertson [37], Dennis Lennon[38], Sean Graham [39], John Godwin and Gillian Hopwood [40], Achyut Kanvinde, Gopal Khosla [41], Peggy Angus, Eulie Chowdhury [42], Shireen Mahdavi [43], Neil Wates[44], Lady Mary Pickard[45],Sián Flower [46], Marion Gair [47], Peter and Christine Rawsthorne [48], Michael Raymond [49], Sir Hugh Casson, Cedric Price, Baroness Lee, Delia Tyrwhitt[50], Lord Reilly[51], Lord Elwyn-Jones, William MacQuitty, Arnold Whittick[52], Elizabeth and Mervyn Dalley[53], Romi Khosla[54], Roz Jacobs[55], Noma Copley [56], Kenane Barlow [57], Sergei Kadleigh[58], Maria Luisa Plant Zaccheo[59], Lord Goodman, Lady Jean Medawar[60], Arunendu Das[61], J.R. Bhalla [62], The Lord Perry [63], Victor Pasmore, Mike Lacey [64], Nigel Wood [65], Peter Greenham [66], Sunita Kanvinde [67], Tony Forrest[68], Heather Brigstocke, Peter Murray, Berthold Lubetkin, Frances Webb Leishman [69], Robert Bliss[70], Viren Sahai[71], Sir John Summerson[72], Patrick Harrison[73], Ebenezer Akita [74], Charles Correa, and Olufemi Majekodunmi[75].

Death

Max died in 1987. Jane Drew died from cancer in 1996, aged 85. She was buried next to her husband near the St. Romald's church in Romaldkirk.

Friends

Among her personal friends and associates were; Alvar Aalto and Ove Arup, architects [76]; artists Delia Tyrwhitt [77], Eduardo Paolozzi, Marcel Duchamp, Barbara Hepworth, Roland Penrose, Peggy Angus, Ben Nicholson and Lynn Chadwick[78]; art and design promoters Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Peter Gregory[79]; playwright and theatre producer Benn Levy; poet, literary critic, and philosopher of modern art Herbert Read; writers Richard Hughes and Kathleen Raine; politician-reformers Jennie Lee, Lord Goodman and Pandit Nehru; actress Constance Cummings; and composer Elizabeth Lutyens.

Tribute

Extracts from the poem by Maxwell Fry[80] which introduces the 1986 "Tribute":

She was naughty when small
And has not changed at all
At over three score and ten
She is, as then.
...Let her be beautiful and kind;
Creative, managing, assertive but quite modest too;
Firm but good-hearted; skilled but not too refined;
Intent of purpose; reasonable; true.
Let her be imaginative but in judgement calm;
Careless of figures but prompt in the account;
Superior to pain, but quick to furnish balm;
Indifferent to rank or persons but a fount
Of care and inspiration for the needier kind;
Fond and protective in the family weal;...
She shall have also a unique power to understand,
A fearful energy, and a childlike faith to guide
Her through life's labyrinthine maze,
Impulses as quick as lightning, and though some fail
And miss their mark, others will soon erase
The error, and she will triumphantly prevail.
Look around you and you will see them all in action.
Turning the weak to strong, the loss to gain,
And high among them to my great satisfaction,
Blow me, if I do not see my Jane.

Awards and honours

Positions

Publications

  • Jane and Maxwell Fry, Architecture for Children.[81] London: George Allen and Unwin, 1944. Republished 1976 as Architecture and the Environment.
  • Jane B. Drew. ed. Architects' Year Book. London: Paul Elek, 1945 ISBN 978-0236154319. Jane Drew was the founder of the Architects' Year Book.
  • Jane B. Drew, ed. Architects' Year Book 2. London: Paul Elek, 1947.
  • Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, Village Housing in the Tropics with special reference to West Africa, In collaboration with Harry L. Ford. London: Lund Humphries, 1947.
  • Jane B. Drew and Trevor Dannatt, eds. Architects' Year Book 3. London: Paul Elek, 1949.
  • Jane B. Drew and Trevor Dannatt, eds. Architects' Year Book 4. London: Paul Elek, 1952.
  • E. Maxwell Fry and Jane B. Drew, Chandigarh and Planning Development in India, London: Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, No.4948, 1 April 1955, Vol.CIII, pages 315-333. I. The Plan, by E. Maxwell Fry, II. Housing, by Jane B. Drew.
  • E. Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone. London: Batsford, 1956.
  • E. Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew, Tropical Architecture in the Dry and Humid Zones. New York: Reinhold, 1964.
  • Jane and Maxwell Fry, Architecture and the Environment. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1976. ISBN 978-0047200205 Republication of 1944 Architecture for Children.

Bibliography

  • Kiran Joshi, Documenting Chandigarh: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Beverly Drew. Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing in association with Chandigarh College of Architecture, 1999. ISBN 189020613X
  • Sile Flower, Jean Macfarlane, Ruth Plant, Jane B. Drew, architect: A tribute from her colleagues and friends for her 75th birthday 24 March 1986. Bristol: Bristol Centre for the Advancement of Architecture, 1986. ISBN 0-9510759-0-X

Audio recordings

References

  1. ^ The 1911 census of England and Wales, taken on the night of 2 April, recorded her as Iris Estelle Radcliffe Drew, aged 10 days.
  2. ^ However on her birth certificate, dated 27 April 1911, her name is registered as Joyce Beverly Drew
  3. ^ Mentioned in a letter from her sister Dorothy Drew
  4. ^ Mary Banham & Bevis Hillier (eds), A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976), p. 103 Jane Drew The Riverside Restaurant
  5. ^ Bristol Centre for the Advancement of Architecture, Jane B. Drew, architect. A tribute from colleagues and friends for her 75th birthday, 24th March 1986 Editorial Group: Sile Flower, Jean Macfarlane, Ruth Plant. ISBN 0-9510759-0-X
  6. ^ Contre-Amiral Jean Sabbagh, son of Agnès Humbert and brother of French film actor/director Pierre Sabbagh) was a Submariner and in World War II was advisor to General Charles de Gaulle.
  7. ^ Síle Flower, BA, first met Jane at Croydon High School, worked in the Foreign Office and was in 1950-1959 official translator with the Shell Company in East Africa
  8. ^ Lesley Donaldson was daughter of the sub-Dean of Westminster Abbey
  9. ^ Maurice Down (OBE) was a cousin of Jane's father, Harry Guy Radcliffe Drew, and on the death of Harry Drew became Chairman of Down Brothers, the family firm of surgical instrument designers and manufacturers
  10. ^ Leonie Cohn (Hon. FRIBA) was a freelance audio-visual producer
  11. ^ Hugh Crallan was a contemporary of Jane at the AA
  12. ^ Michael Thornley was a contemporary of Jane's at the AA
  13. ^ Ruth Plant (M.Litt, RIBA, AA Dip.) was a contemporary of Jane's at the AA
  14. ^ Phyllis Dobbs whad been Jane's friend ever since her husband Richard was a young paedriatrician involved in helping Jane with her twin children
  15. ^ Ed Lewis was an architect and planner with GLC housing experience
  16. ^ Dorothy Morland was Director of the ICA (1968-1970)
  17. ^ Maud Hatmil was born in British Guyana, nanny to Jane's children and later housekeeper and family friend
  18. ^ Diana Rowntree (AA Dip., RIBA) was Architecture Correspondent to The Guardian, and first met Jane at the AA
  19. ^ Rodney Thomas was a painter. He taught at the Chelsea School of Art and other colleges
  20. ^ John Terry was an architect, the only member of Jane's staff in 1940
  21. ^ Trevor Dannatt (Dipl. Arch., MA, RA, FRIBA). was one of Jane's staff in 1943 at King Street, St. James; with her help he founded the Architects' Year Book
  22. ^ Riehm Marcus was an artist and illustrator, born as Helen Riehm, was the wife of architect F.I. Marcus, refugees from Hitler's Germany in World War 2
  23. ^ Anthony Bell, author, worked in publishing for Lund Humphries, and for Jane at Gloucester Place
  24. ^ Norman Creamer was an RAF pilot in World War 2 and joined Max and Jane in 1946, becoming a partner in 1960. He worked entirely on the overseas projects
  25. ^ Peter Dunican (CBE, FEng, FICE, FIStructE, FiEI) was Chairman of Ove Arup Partnership
  26. ^ Luke Gertler, son of the artist Mark Gertler, stayed at the flat in Gloucester Place when he was a child, and made friends with Jane's children. He later studied music and became a teacher
  27. ^ Frank Knight (AA Dipl. Hons., ARIBA, MRTPI Hons.) joined Fry, Drew in 1947 and became a partner in 1960. He worked with Jane at Masjid-i-Suleiman in Iran
  28. ^ John Lomax joined Jane's office in 1948 and worked with Max and Jane on housing in Ghana
  29. ^ Dr. Rex and Mrs Joan Cheverton worked with Jane in Nigeria from 1947
  30. ^ Stephen Macfarlane (AA Dipl. Hons., FRIBA) taught architecture in Bristol
  31. ^ Lleky Papastavrou and her sister Penny Hughes were daughters of the author and poet Richard Hughes; Max, Jane and the twins often stayed with the Hughes family in Wales, and the Hughes family once "borrowed" Gloucester Place when Max and Jane were abroad. Their children all attended the same boarding school
  32. ^ Otto Koenigsberger, an architectural scientist, was Development Planner at University College, London.
  33. ^ Theo Crosby (ARA, RIBA, FSIAD) worked at Gloucester place just after the war, and as a thinker and writer showed that he was very much aware of the place and value of Max and Jane in the Modern Movement
  34. ^ Norman Starrett, (B.Arch; Liverpool) and his wife Kay both started as junior partners with Max and Jane, in the 1951 Festival of Britain team
  35. ^ Geoffrey Knight (FRIBA) worked in Ghana (then the "Gold Coast") for Jane and Max 1947-1957 and 1964-1966
  36. ^ Minnette da Silva (RIBA, SLIA), a native of Sri Lanka met Max and Jane at a CIAM meeting and had personal recollections of Jane after Chandigarh
  37. ^ Ian Robertson (FRICS) worked with Jane on the Torbay Hospital, and later became coordinator for the interior of the liner QE2
  38. ^ Dennis Lennon (CBE, MC, FRIBA, FRSA, FSIA) had been an army major in World War 2. He worked for Max and Jane on an Officer's Club in Accra, Ghana. He later designed the sets for the Richard Strauss opera Capriccio at Glyndebourne
  39. ^ Sean Graham was a writer and film-maker, and he was in charge of the Ghana Film Unit when he met Jane
  40. ^ John Godwin (OBE, FRIBA, FNIA, AA Dipl.(Hons), AI.Arb) and Gillian Hopwood (FRIBA, FNIA, AA Dipl.) both worked with Max and Jane in Nigeria, on the University College of Ibadan, using "appropriate technology", i.e. cheap local materials
  41. ^ G.D. Khosla (BA (Cantab)) was a Punjab High Court Judge. He was instrumental in selecting Le Corbusier and later Jane and Max for the Chandigarh project
  42. ^ Mrs Eulie Chowdhury worked with the Corbusier team on the Chandigarh project
  43. ^ Shireen Mahdavi (BSc., MA) first met Jane at her boarding school. She felt forced by the new régime to leave Iran, and is now (2008) an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Utah, specialising in Iranian social and economic issues
  44. ^ Neil Wates was director of Wates, the builders
  45. ^ Lady Pickard lived near Jane and Max; she was a Civil Servant in the Overseas Development Administration until 1983, married to Sir Cyril Pickard (KCMG)
  46. ^ Sián Flower's husband, Patrick Flower, was a Civil Engineer; Sián Flower recalled how Jane helped their son who suffered from multiple sclerosis
  47. ^ Marion Gair (MA) worked for Peter Gregory at publishers Lund Humphries
  48. ^ Peter Rawsthorne was an architecture correspondent to the News Chronicle
  49. ^ Michael Raymond was a consultant psychiatrist; he wrote a poem, Rowfant Lake, for Jane
  50. ^ Delia Tyrwhitt first met Jane and Max in Chandigarh in 1953
  51. ^ Sir Paul Reilly, Director of the Design Council
  52. ^ Arnold Whittick was an art and architectural historian
  53. ^ Mervyn Dalley (CMG, MA (Cantab)) and his wife, Elizabeth, first met Jane in Iran at Masjid-i-Suleiman, when Jane stayed with them; they remained friends, and years later Jane converted their old rectory house in England. Mervyn Dailey wrote a note on Jane's work in Iran
  54. ^ Romi Khosla (BA (Cantab), AA Dipl.), son of High Court Judge G. D. Khosla (a friend of Jawaharlal Nehru), was an accountant who, under Jane's guidance switched careers to architecture
  55. ^ Roza Jacobs was Vice President and Fashion Director of Macy's store in New York "...a good and loyal friend"
  56. ^ Noma Copley was a jewellery designer, earlier married to the painter William Copley
  57. ^ Kenane Barlow (wife of Peter Barlow) "and the five Barlows" wrote Jane an affectionate poem. Peter had met Jane on the Torbay express to London
  58. ^ Sergei Kadleigh (AA Dipl. (Hons), ARIBS) was a Russian-born British architect
  59. ^ Maria Luisa Plant Zaccheo, (Dr. Arch.(Rome), ARIBA) was an associate in Jane's office 1971-1980
  60. ^ Jean Medawar was a pioneer in family planning; Jane designed the Margaret Pyke Centre for her
  61. ^ Arun Das worked in Jane's office on the Margaret Pyke Centre
  62. ^ Jai Rattan Bhalla, (FRIBA, FHS, FVI, HFAIA) was President of the Indian Institute of Architects. Although not involved in the Chandigarh project, he was appreciative of Jane's interest in the training of young Indian architects
  63. ^ Walter Laing Macdonald Perry, Lord Perry of Walton (OBE, FRSE), was a pharmacologist and vice-chancellor of the Open University (1921-2003). Lord Perry was instrumental in the planning of the Open University and Jane was his development architect
  64. ^ Mike Lacey was Director of Lovell Construction on the OU project at Milton Keynes
  65. ^ Nigel Wood (MA, C.Eng., MICE, MCIOB) was a craftsman builder who worked for Jane on the OU project at Milton Keynes, St Pauls Girls' School, Carlton House Terrace and Jane's own flat and offices
  66. ^ Peter Greenham (CBE, RA, PPRBA) was a renowned portrait painter
  67. ^ Sunita Kanvinde was a student of painting and graphics in Delhi and was helped by Jane when she came to England
  68. ^ Tony Forrest (DA (Edin.)) was a building contractor and artist, specialising in combining architecture and landscapes with human elements
  69. ^ Frances Webb Leishman was the American wife of a retired British diplomat and merchant banker, and a freelance journalist, who once interviewed Jane for Woman's Hour
  70. ^ Robert L. Bliss (FAIA) was Dean of Architecture at the University of Utah when, in 1975, Jane visited Salt Lake City during her lecture tour of the United States
  71. ^ Viren Sahai (OBE, DipTP., ARIBA) was born in India, studied architecture, painting and town planning and was Chairman of the Bristol Centre for the Advancement of Architecture
  72. ^ Sir John Summerson (CBE, FBA) contributed an extract from an essay on Batty Langley
  73. ^ Patrick Harrison (CBE) met Jane while he was secretary of the RIBA
  74. ^ Ebenezer Akita (AA Dip., ARIBA, FGIA) was President of the Ghana Institute of Architects
  75. ^ Olufemi Majekodunmi (D.ARch., ARIBA, FNIA, FI.Arb) was President of the Nigerian Institute of Architects, and reviewed Jane's work on the University of Ibadan
  76. ^ Jones, Peter: "Ove Arup: Master Builder of the Twentieth Century", Yale University Press, 2006
  77. ^ Delia Tyrwhitt, sister-in-law of town planner Jacqueline Tyrwhitt (FILA, AMPTI, Sp. Dip.) first met Max and Jane in Chandigarh in 1953
  78. ^ Major English sculptor Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) did a huge mobile for Jane and Max at the 1951 Festival of Britain
  79. ^ Eric Gregory (known as Peter Gregory) was chairman of the important publishers Lund Humphries, and provided his blessing and financial backing to many projects involving modern art and design in various forms
  80. ^ Jane B. Drew, architect, A tribute from her colleagues and friends for her 75th birthday 24th March 1986, page 1
  81. ^ Architecture for Children is dedicated "to Ann, Jennifer and Georgina" (Max's daughter and Jane's twin daughters)

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