page_title: Jane Drew
section_title: Other works
hierarchical_section_title: Jane Drew / Other works
caption_attribution_description: English: Kenneth Onwuka Dike University Library, Ibadan (2), design Maxwell Fry &amp; Jane Drew
context_page_description: Dame Jane Drew, DBE, FRIBA was an English modernist architect and town planner. She qualified at the Architectural Association School in London, and prior to World War II became one of the leading exponents of the Modern Movement in London.
  At the time Drew 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. She, Fry and Pierre Jeanneret, designed 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 Year Honours, gazetted 30 December 1995, only seven months before her death.
context_section_description: 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
caption: Kenneth Onwuka Dike University Library, University of Ibadan, (Nigeria)
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