Zöe Theodora Maw [also knon as Mrs E. Bankart] was born in Heaton Norris, Lancashire, England on 31 March 1909 and trained as an architect at the Architectural Association Schools in London. She qualified in the early 1930s and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1933. She subsequently practised as an architect in London. A design for a theatre curtain by her is illustrated in Colour in Interior Decoration by John M. Holmes (London: The Architectural Press, 1931 p. 84a). She retired in 1964.
Her address was given as 63 Greencroft Gardens, Hampstead, Middlesex [now London] in 1933 and 1939; 4 Guessens Road, Welwyn Garden City, Herfordshire in 1950; and Gosden End Cottage, Gosden Common, Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey in 1965. She died in Surrey in 1988
Student designs and measured drawings made by her while at the Architectural Association, and a 53-page sketchbook of topographical drawings of buildings in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, entitled 'Holiday Work', for the 1st year of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, by Zoe Maw, have been deposited in the RIBA Library, London