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Edwin Maxwell Fry, usually known as '''Maxwell Fry''' (born 2 August 1899; died 3 September 1987) was an English Modernist Architect . He was trained at the School of Architecture at the University Of Liverpool . Maxwell Fry was one of the few modernist architects in working in Britain in the thirties who was British; most were emigrants from continental Europe where modernism originated. In 1933 he co-founded the MARS Group , a modernist architectural think tank. His best known buildings are Kensal House, in Kensal Green , London , a pioneering example of social housing, completed in 1937, and Impington Village College , in Impington in Cambridgeshire designed in collaboration with Walter Gropius . During World War II he worked in Nigeria , where he designed buildings for the University Of Ibadan . Later he worked with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh where he worked on much of the housing. Together with his wife Jane Drew , also an architect, he published a book about tropical architecture. Maxwell Fry won the Royal Institute Of British Architects gold medal in 1964. PUBLICATIONS
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