Dame Jane Beverly Drew
General Information
Occupation: Architect
Date of Birth: March 24, 1911
Date of Death: June 06, 1996
Birth City: Thornton Heath
Birth Country: England (U.K.)
Notes: Brainy History says dead at 84 http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/a/architect.html
Sources: Obituary
Specialties
Subject: Designing buildings in extreme climates, such as in Africa and India
Description: Drew considered a house in such climates as a shelter from the sun.
Notes: Drew along with Fry set up the first Tropical Architecture School with the Architectural Association
Jobs
Employer: Assistant Town Planning Advisor to the Colonies of Nigeria, the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, and Gambia
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Notes: Following this appointment, Drew received commissions to build schools and teacher-training colleges in Ghana and Togoland and the University of Idadan in Nigeria.
Employer: Joseph Hill, Fry and Drew
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Collaborators
Name: J.T. Alliston
Project: Hospital in Devon
Country: India
Notes: Jane Drew and her first husband, J.T. Alliston won a competition for the hospital in Devon, after which Drew joined Alliston's practice
Name: Maxwell Fry
Project: Master Plan for Chandigarh, India
Country: India
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
No awards on record
Exhibitions
Title: Rebuilding Britain
Description: Held at the National Gallery during World War Two
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Notes: Drew was the chairwomen of the exhibition.
Notable Projects
Title: Master Plan of Chandigarh
Description: Worked with Le Corbusier and Maxwell Fry and PierreJeanneret on the redesign of the original master plan drawn by Albert Mayer
City: Chandigarh
Notes: Drew convinced Le Corbusier to work on the Chandigarh project. She was in charge of training of the Indian staff, where she became worked with Pandit Nehru-persuading him to hire young Indian architects. Drew was responsible government and private housing shops and health centers, schools and colleges.
Title: Open University at Milton Keynes
Title: Torbay Hospital and Nurses Residence
Title: Gestetner Building
City: Stirling
Title: St. Paul's Girls' School in London
City: London
Title: Waterloo Bridge Entrance
Description: Designed for the Festival of Britain
Notes: Following this project, Drew worked on health housing and amenity buildings in Tehran. Then moving on to Nigeria and Ceylon where she did shops, offices, an art center and a training center in Ghana
Education
Institution: Architectural Association
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Modern Architectural Research Group
Notes: The Group was a consortium of architects, painters and industrialists. Drew came in contact with other modernists such as Henry Moore Le Corbusier, Elizabeth Lutyens and Maxwell Fry.
Organization: Architects' Registration Council
Notes: Located in the United Kingdom
Organization: Architectural Association
Role: President
Publications By
Title: Village Housing in the Tropics
Co-author: E. Maxwell Fry
Title: Tropical Architecture in Dry and Humid Zones
Title: Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone
Co-author: E. Maxwell Fry
City: London
Country: England (U.K.)
Title: Architecture and the Environment
Co-author: E. Maxwell Fry
City: London
Country: England (U.K.)
Publications About
No publications about on record