Drew, Jane Beverley (1911-1996)

English architect. In partnership with her husband Maxwell Fry, she worked on numerous projects in Africa 1943-65, and was a senior architect 1951-54 at Chandigarh, India, often supervising work for Le Corbusier. She advocated the need for an Open University (Milton Keynes), working on the project 1969-77. She was made DBE in 1996.

Her buildings include the Government College for Women and the high school at Chandigarh; the Wesley Girls School, Ghana (1946); the Olympic stadium and swimming pool (1965) in Kaduna, Nigeria; and the hospital building for the Kuwait Oil Company (1949-51) and the Festival of Britain Harbour Restaurant, London (1951).

Drew was born in Thornton Heath, Surrey, and trained at the Architectural Association, London 1929-34. After establishing her own practice during World War II, she worked with Fry from 1943 to 1978. Her publications include Village Housing in the Tropics (1945) and Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone (1956), both co-written with Fry.