Dr. Lanre Towry-Coker FRIBA (born 1944) is a Nigerian architect,[1] politician and socialite.
[2][3][4] Born in 1944[5][6] to a Nigerian civil engineer, who was the planning adviser to the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, in the early 1960s, Lanre Towry-Coker attended St. Matthias School, Lagos, and Kingston College, Surrey, England, before going on to the Architectural Association School of Architecture and the University of North-East London for his architectural training.
He subsequently earned a further qualification from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration (OPM).
An indigene of Lagos (Towry Street on Lagos Island was named after his family)[4] He was one of the original planners of the capital city Abuja, and has won numerous awards for his work on major buildings in Nigeria.
[2][3][4] He is the author of the book Housing Policy And The Dynamics Of Housing Delivery In Nigeria: Lagos State As Case Study, published by MakeWay Press in 2012.