Architect, teacher, painter and collector, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, full name Edwin Maxwell Fry, educated at the Liverpool Institute and Liverpool University School of Architecture, graduating in 1923. With several other forward-looking architects in 1931 he established the Modern Architectural Research (MARS) group, which was influential in Britain and abroad. In 1943 with his second wife Jane Drew he was appointed town planning adviser in West Africa and in 1951 he went to India as senior architect with Le Corbusier for Chandigarh, the new capital city of Punjab. Fry’s books included Autobiographical Sketches and Art in the Machine Age. In his later years he became the RA’s professor of architecture and turned to painting. He had been elected a fellow of RIBA in 1930, winning its Gold Medal in 1964.