The practice of Fry, Drew and Partners was one of the most influential UK practices working in West African and India - their work spanning nearly 4 decades from the end of the 2nd World War. The practice was very closely associated with the Architectural Association (AA)'s Department of Tropical Architecture - Maxwell Fry serving as the Department's Director for the first two yeas of the course, from 1954. Jane Drew had been a student at the AA, graduating in 1934, and subsequently became a key part of the Department's initial teaching staff. Both Jane and Max served on the AA Council, at various points, and Jane acted as AA President from 1969-70. Fry and Drew began working together in 1946 and in 1950 formally created the 'Office of Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew', later 'Fry, Drew and Partners' - amongst the architects who became partners were Lindsey Drake and Denys Lasdun.  Their in West Africa and at Chandigarh, India, has been well documented, and covered a range of typologies, including hospitals, housing,  educational buildings and libraries. Their writings were also extremely influential, their 'Village Housing in the Tropics' (1947) and 'Tropical Architecture in the Humid Zone' (1956) being key 'Tropical Modernism' texts.