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Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA (/ˈlʌtjənz/ LUT-yənz; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944[2]) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior".[3] The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century".[4]


Edwin Lutyens

Lutyens in 1921
Born
Edwin Landseer Lutyens

(1869-03-29)29 March 1869
Kensington, London, England
Died1 January 1944(1944-01-01) (aged 74)
Marylebone, London, England[1]
Alma materRoyal College of Art
OccupationArchitect
Spouse
(m. 1897)
Children5, including Robert, Elisabeth and Mary
Parents
Buildings
ProjectsNew Delhi

Lutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India.[5] In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is also known as "Lutyens' Delhi". In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker, he was also the main architect of several monuments in New Delhi such as the India Gate; he also designed Viceroy's House, which is now known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Many of his works were inspired by Indian architecture.[6][7] He was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1933.[8][9]

Early life edit

Lutyens was born in Kensington, London,[10] the tenth of thirteen children of Mary Theresa Gallwey (1832/33–1906) from Killarney, Ireland, and Captain Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens (1829–1915), a soldier and painter.[11][12] His sister, Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens (1868–1951), wrote novels under her married name of Mrs George Wemyss.[13][better source needed] He grew up in Thursley, Surrey. He was named after a friend of his father, the painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer. Lutyens studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art, London, from 1885 to 1887. After college he joined the Ernest George and Harold Peto architectural practice. It was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker. For many years he worked from offices at 29 Bloomsbury Square, London.

Architectural career edit

Private practice edit

 
Ground floor plan of Munstead Wood

He began his own practice in 1888, his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey. During this work, he met the garden designer and horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll. In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood near Godalming, Surrey. It was the beginning of a professional partnership that would define the look of many Lutyens country houses.

The "Lutyens–Jekyll" garden had hardy shrubbery and herbaceous plantings within a structural architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces. This combined style, of the formal with the informal, exemplified by brick paths, herbaceous borders, and with plants such as lilies, lupins, delphiniums and lavender, was in contrast to the formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the 19th century. This "natural" style was to define the "English garden" until modern times.

Lutyens' fame grew largely through the popularity of the new lifestyle magazine Country Life created by Edward Hudson, which featured many of his house designs. Hudson was a great admirer of Lutyens' style and commissioned Lutyens for a number of projects, including Lindisfarne Castle and the Country Life headquarters building in London, at 8 Tavistock Street. One of his assistants in the 1890s was Maxwell Ayrton.[14]

By the turn of the century, Lutyens was recognised as one of architecture's coming men. In his major study of English domestic buildings, Das englische Haus, published in 1904, Hermann Muthesius wrote of Lutyens, "He is a young man who has come increasingly to the forefront of domestic architects and who may soon become the accepted leader among English builders of houses".[15]

Works edit

 
Ground floor plan of Orchards

The bulk of Lutyens' early work consisted of private houses in an Arts and Crafts style, strongly influenced by Tudor architecture and the vernacular styles of south-east England. This was the most innovative phase of his career. Important works of this period include Munstead Wood,[16] Tigbourne Court, Orchards and Goddards in Surrey, Deanery Garden and Folly Farm in Berkshire, Overstrand Hall in Norfolk and Le Bois des Moutiers in France.

After about 1900 this style gave way to a more conventional Classicism, a change of direction which had a profound influence on wider British architectural practice. His commissions were of a varied nature from private houses to two churches for the new Hampstead Garden Suburb in London to Julius Drewe's Castle Drogo near Drewsteignton in Devon and on to his contributions to India's new imperial capital, New Delhi (where he worked as chief architect with Herbert Baker and others). Here he added elements of local architectural styles to his classicism, and based his urbanisation scheme on Mughal water gardens. He also designed the Hyderabad House for the last Nizam of Hyderabad, as his Delhi palace and planned the layout for the Janpath and Rajpath roads.[17]

 
The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London

Before the end of the First World War, he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now Commonwealth War Graves Commission) and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead. Larger cemeteries have a Stone of Remembrance, designed by him.[18] The best known of these monuments are the Cenotaph in Whitehall, Westminster, and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval. The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919. Lloyd George proposed a catafalque, a low empty platform, but it was Lutyens' idea for the taller monument. The design took less than six hours to complete. Lutyens also designed many other war memorials, and others are based on or inspired by Lutyens' designs. Examples of Lutyens' other war memorials include the War Memorial Gardens in Dublin, the Tower Hill memorial, the Manchester Cenotaph and the Arch of Remembrance memorial in Leicester.

 
Lutyens' design for The Cenotaph

Lutyens also refurbished Lindisfarne Castle for its wealthy owner.[19]

One of Lutyens' smaller works, but considered one of his masterpieces, is The Salutation, a house in Sandwich, Kent, England. Built in 1911–1912 with a 3.7-acre (1.5 ha) garden, it was commissioned by Henry Farrer, one of three sons of Sir William Farrer.[20]

 
Lutyens' Midland Bank Building in Manchester, constructed in 1935

He was knighted in 1918[21] and elected a Royal Academician in March 1920.[22] In 1924, he was appointed a member of the newly created Royal Fine Art Commission, a position he held until his death.[23]

While work continued in New Delhi, Lutyens received other commissions including several commercial buildings in London and the British Embassy in Washington, DC.

In 1924 he completed the supervision of the construction of what is perhaps his most popular design: Queen Mary's Dolls' House. This four-storey Palladian villa was built in 1/12 scale and is now a permanent exhibit in the public area of Windsor Castle. It was not conceived or built as a plaything for children; its goal was to exhibit the finest British craftsmanship of the period.

Lutyens was commissioned in 1929 to design a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. He planned a vast building of brick and granite, topped with towers and a 510-foot (160 m) dome, with commissioned sculpture work by Charles Sargeant Jagger and W. C. H. King. Work on this building started in 1933, but was halted during World War II. After the war, the project ended due to a shortage of funding, with only the crypt completed. A model of Lutyens' unrealised building was given to and restored by the Walker Art Gallery in 1975 and is now on display in the Museum of Liverpool.[24] The architect of the present Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, which was built over part of the crypt and consecrated in 1967, was Sir Frederick Gibberd.

In 1945, a year after his death, A Plan for the City & County of Kingston upon Hull was published. Lutyens worked on the plan with Sir Patrick Abercrombie and they are credited as its co-authors. Abercrombie's introduction in the plan makes special reference to Lutyens' contribution. The plan was, however, rejected by the City Council of Hull. He was also involved in the Royal Academy's planning for post-war London, an endeavour dismissed by Osbert Lancaster as "... not unlike what the new Nuremberg might have been had the Fuhrer enjoyed the inestimable advantage of the advice and guidance of the late Sir Aston Webb".[25]

Overseas commissions edit

Ireland (1906–1918) edit

Works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge in Dublin, which consists of a bridge over the railway and a bridge over the River Liffey (unbuilt) and two tiered sunken gardens; Heywood House Gardens, County Laois (open to the public), consisting of a hedge garden, lawns, tiered sunken garden and a belvedere; extensive changes and extensions to Lambay Castle, Lambay Island, near Dublin, consisting of a circular battlement enclosing the restored and extended castle and farm building complex, upgraded cottages and stores near the harbour, a real tennis court, a large guest house (The White House), a boathouse and a chapel; alterations and extensions to Howth Castle, County Dublin; the unbuilt Hugh Lane gallery straddling the River Liffey on the site of the Ha'penny Bridge and the unbuilt Hugh Lane Gallery on the west side of St Stephen's Green; and Costelloe Lodge at Casla (also known as Costelloe), County Galway (that was used for refuge by J. Bruce Ismay, the Chairman of the White Star Line, following the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic). In 1907, Lutyens designed Tranarossan House, located just north of Downings on the Rosguill Peninsula on the north coast of County Donegal.[26] The house was built of local granite for Mr and Mrs Phillimore, from London, as a holiday home. In 1937, Mrs Phillimore donated it to An Óige (Irish Youth Hostels Association) for the "youth of Ireland", and it has been a hostel ever since.[27]

India (1912–1930) edit

 
Rashtrapati Bhavan, formerly known as Viceroy's House, was designed by Lutyens.

Largely designed by Lutyens over 20 or so years (1912 to 1930), New Delhi, situated within the metropolis of Delhi, popularly known as 'Lutyens' Delhi', was chosen to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government in 1912;[28] the project was completed in 1929 and officially inaugurated in 1931. In undertaking this project, Lutyens invented his own new order of classical architecture, which has become known as the Delhi Order and was used by him for several designs in England, such as Campion Hall, Oxford. Unlike the more traditional British architects who came before him, he was both inspired by and incorporated various features from the local and traditional Indian architecture—something most clearly seen in the great drum-mounted Buddhist dome of Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan. This palatial building, containing 340 rooms, is built on an area of some 330 acres (130 ha) and incorporates a private garden also designed by Lutyens. The building was designed as the official residence of the Viceroy of India and is now the official residence of the President of India.[29][30][31]

The Delhi Order columns at the front entrance of the palace have bells carved into them, which, it has been suggested, Lutyens had designed with the idea that as the bells were silent the British rule would never come to an end. At one time, more than 2,000 people were required to care for the building and serve the Viceroy's household.

The new city contains both the Parliament buildings and government offices (many designed by Herbert Baker) and was built distinctively of the local red sandstone using the traditional Mughal style.

When composing the plans for New Delhi, Lutyens planned for the new city to lie southwest of the walled city of Shahjahanbad. His plans for the city also laid out the street plan for New Delhi consisting of wide tree-lined avenues.

Built in the spirit of British colonial rule, the place where the new imperial city and the older native settlement met was intended to be a market. It was there that Lutyens imagined the Indian traders would participate in "the grand shopping centre for the residents of Shahjahanabad and New Delhi", thus giving rise to the D-shaped market seen today.

Many of the garden-ringed villas in the Lutyens' Bungalow Zone (LBZ)—also known as Lutyens' Delhi—that were part of Lutyens' original scheme for New Delhi are under threat due to the constant pressure for development in Delhi. The LBZ was placed on the 2002 World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites. None of the bungalows in the LBZ were designed by Lutyens—he only designed the four bungalows in the Presidential Estate surrounding Rashtrapati Bhavan at Willingdon Crescent, now known as Mother Teresa Crescent.[32] Other buildings in Delhi that Lutyens designed include Baroda House, Bikaner House, Hyderabad House, and Patiala House.[33]

In recognition of his architectural accomplishments for the British Raj, Lutyens was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) on 1 January 1930.[34] As a chivalric order, the KCIE knighthood held precedence over his earlier bachelor knighthood.

A bust of Lutyens in the former Viceroy's House is the only statue of a Westerner left in its original position in New Delhi. Lutyens' work in New Delhi is the focus of Robert Grant Irving's book Indian Summer. In spite of his monumental work in India, Lutyens views on the peoples of the Indian sub-continent, although not uncommon for people of his time, would now be considered racist.[35]

He thought that all Indians were uncivilized, smelly, dirty, and unable to govern themselves. He thought the Indian Indo-Saracenic style was "formless, not of carved decoration, an anathema...hardly qualified as architecture at all." Endless battles were fought between him and Viceroy Hardinge over architectural style: Lutyens wanted classical, the architecture of the Empire – Hardinge wanted elements of the Indian vernacular for political reasons.[36] An unapologetic spokesman of British imperialism he built the Viceroy's Palace as a symbol of glory of the Raj, and considered Indians to be primitive as yet on the verge of civilization who deserved to be ruled in perpetuity by the British.[37]

Spain (1915–1928) edit

In Madrid, Lutyens' work can be seen in the interiors of the Liria Palace, a neoclassical building which was severely damaged during the Spanish Civil War.[38] The palace was originally built in the 18th century for James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, and still belongs to his descendants. Lutyens' reconstruction was commissioned by Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba. The Duke had been in contact with Lutyens while serving as the Spanish ambassador to the Court of St. James's.

Between 1915 and 1928, Lutyens also produced designs for a new palace for the Duke of Alba's younger brother, Hernando Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duke of Peñaranda. The palace of El Guadalperal, as it was to be called, would have been, if built, Edwin Lutyens's largest country house.[39]

 
13 Mansfield Street, Marylebone, Lutyens' London home from 1919 to his death in 1944

Personal life edit

Lutyens married Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton (1874–1964) on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. She was third daughter of Edith (née Villiers) and the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India. Lady Emily had proposed to Lutyens two years before the wedding, and her parents disapproved of the marriage.[40] Their marriage was largely unsatisfactory, practically from the start, with Lady Emily developing interests in theosophy, Eastern religions, and being drawn both emotionally and philosophically to Jiddu Krishnamurti.[41] They had five children:

During the later years of his life, Lutyens suffered with several bouts of pneumonia.

Death edit

In the early 1940s he was diagnosed with cancer. He died on 1 January 1944 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in north London where he had designed the Philipson Mausoleum in 1914–1916. His ashes were buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, beneath a memorial designed by his friend and fellow architect William Curtis Green.

Major buildings and projects edit

Recognition and legacy edit

 
Memorial to Lutyens by Stephen Cox (2015)

Lutyens received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1921, and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1925. In November 2015 the British government announced that all 44 of Lutyens' First World War memorials in Britain[note 1] had now been listed on the advice of Historic England, and were therefore all protected by law. This involved the one remaining memorial—the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building in Buckinghamshire—being added to the list, plus a further fourteen having their statuses upgraded.[47]

The architectural critic Ian Nairn wrote of Lutyen's Surrey "masterpieces" in the 1971 Surrey volume of the Buildings of England series, while noting that; "the genius and the charlatan were very close together in Lutyens".[48] In the introduction to the catalogue for the 1981 Lutyens exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, the architectural writer Colin Amery described Lutyens as "the builder of some of our finest country houses and gardens".[49]

In 2015 a memorial to Lutyens by the sculptor Stephen Cox was erected in Apple Tree Yard, Mayfair, London, adjacent to the studio where Lutyens prepared the designs for New Delhi.[50][51]

Gallery edit

Publications edit

  • Edwin Lutyens & Charles Bressey, The Highway Development Survey, Ministry of Transport, 1937
  • Edwin Lutyens & Patrick Abercrombie, A Plan for the City & County of Kingston upon Hull, Brown (London & Hull), 1945.

See also edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ 43 in England, 1 in Wales

References edit

  1. ^ "England & Wales Deaths 1837–2007". Findmypast.
  2. ^ "Sir Edwin Lutyens | British architect". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  3. ^ Hussey 1989, p. xvii.
  4. ^ Stamp 2007, p. 10.
  5. ^ Vale 1992, p. 92.
  6. ^ Goodman & Chant 1999, p. 320.
  7. ^ Pile 2005, p. 320.
  8. ^ Past Master List (PDF). Art Workers' Guild. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022.
  9. ^ Stamp. G (19 November 1981). "The rise and fall and rise of Edwin Lutyens". The Architectural Review.
  10. ^ "England & Wales Births 1837–2006". Findmypast.
  11. ^ Stamp, Gavin. "Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer (1869–1944), architect". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34638. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  12. ^ Oram, Hugh (7 April 2015). "An Irishman's Diary on Sir Edwin Lutyens and Ireland". Irish Times. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
  13. ^ "Mary Constance Elphinstone Wemyss (born Lutyens), 1868 – 1951". MyHeritage. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  14. ^ Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine at scottisharchitects.org.uk, accessed 4 February 2009.
  15. ^ Muthesius 1979, p. 55.
  16. ^ Gradidge 1981, pp. 27–31.
  17. ^ Chakraborty, Debiparna (1 January 2017). "10 Interesting Facts about Sir Edwin Lutyens, the Architect Who Designed Most of New Delhi". www.vagabomb.com. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
  18. ^ . Archived from the original on 10 August 2011.
  19. ^ Brown 1997, pp. 118–119.
  20. ^ Newman 2013, p. 539.
  21. ^ "No. 30607". The London Gazette. 2 April 1918. p. 4026.
  22. ^ "Sir Edwin Lutyens | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  23. ^ "No. 32942". The London Gazette. 3 June 1924. p. 4429.
  24. ^ Conserving the Lutyens cathedral model, Liverpool museums 2 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Retrieved on 29 July 2013.
  25. ^ Stamp, Gavin (19 November 1981). "The rise and fall and rise of Edwin Lutyens". Architectural Review.
  26. ^ Alistair Rowan, The Buildings of Ireland: North West Ulster, p. 169. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2003 (originally published by Penguin, London, 1979).
  27. ^ "Trá na Rosann". Anoige. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  28. ^ Irving 1981, p. 29.
  29. ^ "Delhi heritage tour: From Tughlaq to British era, cycle your way to historical monuments". Hindustan Times. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  30. ^ . Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  31. ^ "India's roads: Whose space is it anyway?". 3 July 2017. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  32. ^ . Hindustan Times. 9 June 2011. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012.
  33. ^ Prakash, Om (2005). Cultural History Of India. New Age International, New Delhi. ISBN 81-224-1587-3. p. 217.
  34. ^ "No. 33566". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1930. p. 5.
  35. ^ "The Architect And His Wife, The Life of Edwin Lutyens". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  36. ^ Ridley, Jane. The Architect and His Wife: A Life of Edwin Lutyens. p. 257.
  37. ^ Varma, Pavan (2010). Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity. Allen Lane. pp. 98–105. ISBN 978-0-670-08346-6.
  38. ^ Stamp, Gavin; Richardson, Margaret (1983). "Lutyens and Spain". AA Files (3): 51–59. JSTOR 29543345.
  39. ^ Basarrate, Íñigo (2017). "Edwin Lutyens in Spain: The Palace of El Guadalperal". Architectural History. 60: 303–339. doi:10.1017/arh.2017.10. S2CID 194864199.
  40. ^ Lutyens 1980, p. 52.
  41. ^ Ridley 2002, pp. 257–258.
  42. ^ Percy & Ridley 1988, p. 53.
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  44. ^ "Clark, (Thomas) Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40709. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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  48. ^ Nairn, Pevsner & Cherry 1971, p. 70.
  49. ^ Amery, Richardson & Stamp 1981, p. 8.
  50. ^ Cox, Stephen. "Apple Tree Yard Sculpture Honours Spirit of Lutyens". The Lutyens Trust. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  51. ^ Hancock, Michaila (3 June 2015). "Eric Parry completes St James's Square office". Architects' Journal. London. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  52. ^ Wright, Tony (February 2002). "Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Daneshill Brickworks". British Brick Society Information. 87: 22–26. ISSN 0960-7870.
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  58. ^ Baldwin, Peter, ed. (2004). The motorway achievement. London: Telford. p. 308. ISBN 9780727731968.

Sources edit

Further reading edit

External links edit

  • The Lutyens Trust
  • Jane Ridley, "Architect for the metropolis", City Journal, Spring 1998
  • The creations of Sir Edwin Lutyens – Ward's Book of Days]
  • – exhibition of Lutyens' cathedral model at the Walker Art Gallery (archived 17 December 2007)
  • Louvet, Solange; de Givry, Jacques. "The history of the Bois des Moutiers". – An 1898 house in France designed by Lutyens and its garden designed by Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll.
  • Collection of over 2000 photos of Lutyens' work on Flickr
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Lutyens redirects here For other uses see Lutyens disambiguation Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA ˈ l ʌ t j e n z LUT yenz 29 March 1869 1 January 1944 2 was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era He designed many English country houses war memorials and public buildings In his biography the writer Christopher Hussey wrote In his lifetime Lutyens was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not as many maintained his superior 3 The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth or of any other century 4 SirEdwin LutyensOM KCIE PRA FRIBALutyens in 1921BornEdwin Landseer Lutyens 1869 03 29 29 March 1869Kensington London EnglandDied1 January 1944 1944 01 01 aged 74 Marylebone London England 1 Alma materRoyal College of ArtOccupationArchitectSpouseLady Emily Bulwer Lytton m 1897 wbr Children5 including Robert Elisabeth and MaryParentsCharles Augustus Henry Lutyens Mary Theresa GallweyBuildingsCastle Drogo India Gate Thiepval Memorial 100 King Street The Cenotaph Whitehall Lindisfarne Castle Rashtrapati Bhavan Hyderabad HouseProjectsNew DelhiLutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India 5 In recognition of his contribution New Delhi is also known as Lutyens Delhi In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker he was also the main architect of several monuments in New Delhi such as the India Gate he also designed Viceroy s House which is now known as the Rashtrapati Bhavan Many of his works were inspired by Indian architecture 6 7 He was elected Master of the Art Workers Guild in 1933 8 9 Contents 1 Early life 2 Architectural career 2 1 Private practice 2 2 Works 2 3 Overseas commissions 2 3 1 Ireland 1906 1918 2 3 2 India 1912 1930 2 3 3 Spain 1915 1928 3 Personal life 4 Death 5 Major buildings and projects 6 Recognition and legacy 7 Gallery 8 Publications 9 See also 10 Footnotes 11 References 12 Sources 13 Further reading 14 External linksEarly life editLutyens was born in Kensington London 10 the tenth of thirteen children of Mary Theresa Gallwey 1832 33 1906 from Killarney Ireland and Captain Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens 1829 1915 a soldier and painter 11 12 His sister Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens 1868 1951 wrote novels under her married name of Mrs George Wemyss 13 better source needed He grew up in Thursley Surrey He was named after a friend of his father the painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer Lutyens studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art London from 1885 to 1887 After college he joined the Ernest George and Harold Peto architectural practice It was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker For many years he worked from offices at 29 Bloomsbury Square London Architectural career editPrivate practice edit nbsp Ground floor plan of Munstead WoodHe began his own practice in 1888 his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury Farnham Surrey During this work he met the garden designer and horticulturalist Gertrude Jekyll In 1896 he began work on a house for Jekyll at Munstead Wood near Godalming Surrey It was the beginning of a professional partnership that would define the look of many Lutyens country houses The Lutyens Jekyll garden had hardy shrubbery and herbaceous plantings within a structural architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces This combined style of the formal with the informal exemplified by brick paths herbaceous borders and with plants such as lilies lupins delphiniums and lavender was in contrast to the formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the 19th century This natural style was to define the English garden until modern times Lutyens fame grew largely through the popularity of the new lifestyle magazine Country Life created by Edward Hudson which featured many of his house designs Hudson was a great admirer of Lutyens style and commissioned Lutyens for a number of projects including Lindisfarne Castle and the Country Life headquarters building in London at 8 Tavistock Street One of his assistants in the 1890s was Maxwell Ayrton 14 By the turn of the century Lutyens was recognised as one of architecture s coming men In his major study of English domestic buildings Das englische Haus published in 1904 Hermann Muthesius wrote of Lutyens He is a young man who has come increasingly to the forefront of domestic architects and who may soon become the accepted leader among English builders of houses 15 Works edit Main article List of works by Edwin Lutyens nbsp Ground floor plan of OrchardsThe bulk of Lutyens early work consisted of private houses in an Arts and Crafts style strongly influenced by Tudor architecture and the vernacular styles of south east England This was the most innovative phase of his career Important works of this period include Munstead Wood 16 Tigbourne Court Orchards and Goddards in Surrey Deanery Garden and Folly Farm in Berkshire Overstrand Hall in Norfolk and Le Bois des Moutiers in France After about 1900 this style gave way to a more conventional Classicism a change of direction which had a profound influence on wider British architectural practice His commissions were of a varied nature from private houses to two churches for the new Hampstead Garden Suburb in London to Julius Drewe s Castle Drogo near Drewsteignton in Devon and on to his contributions to India s new imperial capital New Delhi where he worked as chief architect with Herbert Baker and others Here he added elements of local architectural styles to his classicism and based his urbanisation scheme on Mughal water gardens He also designed the Hyderabad House for the last Nizam of Hyderabad as his Delhi palace and planned the layout for the Janpath and Rajpath roads 17 nbsp The Cenotaph Whitehall LondonBefore the end of the First World War he was appointed one of three principal architects for the Imperial War Graves Commission now Commonwealth War Graves Commission and was involved with the creation of many monuments to commemorate the dead Larger cemeteries have a Stone of Remembrance designed by him 18 The best known of these monuments are the Cenotaph in Whitehall Westminster and the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme Thiepval The Cenotaph was originally commissioned by David Lloyd George as a temporary structure to be the centrepiece of the Allied Victory Parade in 1919 Lloyd George proposed a catafalque a low empty platform but it was Lutyens idea for the taller monument The design took less than six hours to complete Lutyens also designed many other war memorials and others are based on or inspired by Lutyens designs Examples of Lutyens other war memorials include the War Memorial Gardens in Dublin the Tower Hill memorial the Manchester Cenotaph and the Arch of Remembrance memorial in Leicester nbsp Lutyens design for The CenotaphLutyens also refurbished Lindisfarne Castle for its wealthy owner 19 One of Lutyens smaller works but considered one of his masterpieces is The Salutation a house in Sandwich Kent England Built in 1911 1912 with a 3 7 acre 1 5 ha garden it was commissioned by Henry Farrer one of three sons of Sir William Farrer 20 nbsp Lutyens Midland Bank Building in Manchester constructed in 1935He was knighted in 1918 21 and elected a Royal Academician in March 1920 22 In 1924 he was appointed a member of the newly created Royal Fine Art Commission a position he held until his death 23 While work continued in New Delhi Lutyens received other commissions including several commercial buildings in London and the British Embassy in Washington DC In 1924 he completed the supervision of the construction of what is perhaps his most popular design Queen Mary s Dolls House This four storey Palladian villa was built in 1 12 scale and is now a permanent exhibit in the public area of Windsor Castle It was not conceived or built as a plaything for children its goal was to exhibit the finest British craftsmanship of the period Lutyens was commissioned in 1929 to design a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool He planned a vast building of brick and granite topped with towers and a 510 foot 160 m dome with commissioned sculpture work by Charles Sargeant Jagger and W C H King Work on this building started in 1933 but was halted during World War II After the war the project ended due to a shortage of funding with only the crypt completed A model of Lutyens unrealised building was given to and restored by the Walker Art Gallery in 1975 and is now on display in the Museum of Liverpool 24 The architect of the present Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral which was built over part of the crypt and consecrated in 1967 was Sir Frederick Gibberd In 1945 a year after his death A Plan for the City amp County of Kingston upon Hull was published Lutyens worked on the plan with Sir Patrick Abercrombie and they are credited as its co authors Abercrombie s introduction in the plan makes special reference to Lutyens contribution The plan was however rejected by the City Council of Hull He was also involved in the Royal Academy s planning for post war London an endeavour dismissed by Osbert Lancaster as not unlike what the new Nuremberg might have been had the Fuhrer enjoyed the inestimable advantage of the advice and guidance of the late Sir Aston Webb 25 Overseas commissions edit Ireland 1906 1918 edit Works in Ireland include the Irish National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge in Dublin which consists of a bridge over the railway and a bridge over the River Liffey unbuilt and two tiered sunken gardens Heywood House Gardens County Laois open to the public consisting of a hedge garden lawns tiered sunken garden and a belvedere extensive changes and extensions to Lambay Castle Lambay Island near Dublin consisting of a circular battlement enclosing the restored and extended castle and farm building complex upgraded cottages and stores near the harbour a real tennis court a large guest house The White House a boathouse and a chapel alterations and extensions to Howth Castle County Dublin the unbuilt Hugh Lane gallery straddling the River Liffey on the site of the Ha penny Bridge and the unbuilt Hugh Lane Gallery on the west side of St Stephen s Green and Costelloe Lodge at Casla also known as Costelloe County Galway that was used for refuge by J Bruce Ismay the Chairman of the White Star Line following the sinking of the R M S Titanic In 1907 Lutyens designed Tranarossan House located just north of Downings on the Rosguill Peninsula on the north coast of County Donegal 26 The house was built of local granite for Mr and Mrs Phillimore from London as a holiday home In 1937 Mrs Phillimore donated it to An oige Irish Youth Hostels Association for the youth of Ireland and it has been a hostel ever since 27 India 1912 1930 edit Main article Lutyens Delhi nbsp Rashtrapati Bhavan formerly known as Viceroy s House was designed by Lutyens Largely designed by Lutyens over 20 or so years 1912 to 1930 New Delhi situated within the metropolis of Delhi popularly known as Lutyens Delhi was chosen to replace Calcutta as the seat of the British Indian government in 1912 28 the project was completed in 1929 and officially inaugurated in 1931 In undertaking this project Lutyens invented his own new order of classical architecture which has become known as the Delhi Order and was used by him for several designs in England such as Campion Hall Oxford Unlike the more traditional British architects who came before him he was both inspired by and incorporated various features from the local and traditional Indian architecture something most clearly seen in the great drum mounted Buddhist dome of Viceroy s House now Rashtrapati Bhavan This palatial building containing 340 rooms is built on an area of some 330 acres 130 ha and incorporates a private garden also designed by Lutyens The building was designed as the official residence of the Viceroy of India and is now the official residence of the President of India 29 30 31 The Delhi Order columns at the front entrance of the palace have bells carved into them which it has been suggested Lutyens had designed with the idea that as the bells were silent the British rule would never come to an end At one time more than 2 000 people were required to care for the building and serve the Viceroy s household The new city contains both the Parliament buildings and government offices many designed by Herbert Baker and was built distinctively of the local red sandstone using the traditional Mughal style When composing the plans for New Delhi Lutyens planned for the new city to lie southwest of the walled city of Shahjahanbad His plans for the city also laid out the street plan for New Delhi consisting of wide tree lined avenues Built in the spirit of British colonial rule the place where the new imperial city and the older native settlement met was intended to be a market It was there that Lutyens imagined the Indian traders would participate in the grand shopping centre for the residents of Shahjahanabad and New Delhi thus giving rise to the D shaped market seen today Many of the garden ringed villas in the Lutyens Bungalow Zone LBZ also known as Lutyens Delhi that were part of Lutyens original scheme for New Delhi are under threat due to the constant pressure for development in Delhi The LBZ was placed on the 2002 World Monuments Fund Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites None of the bungalows in the LBZ were designed by Lutyens he only designed the four bungalows in the Presidential Estate surrounding Rashtrapati Bhavan at Willingdon Crescent now known as Mother Teresa Crescent 32 Other buildings in Delhi that Lutyens designed include Baroda House Bikaner House Hyderabad House and Patiala House 33 In recognition of his architectural accomplishments for the British Raj Lutyens was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire KCIE on 1 January 1930 34 As a chivalric order the KCIE knighthood held precedence over his earlier bachelor knighthood A bust of Lutyens in the former Viceroy s House is the only statue of a Westerner left in its original position in New Delhi Lutyens work in New Delhi is the focus of Robert Grant Irving s book Indian Summer In spite of his monumental work in India Lutyens views on the peoples of the Indian sub continent although not uncommon for people of his time would now be considered racist 35 He thought that all Indians were uncivilized smelly dirty and unable to govern themselves He thought the Indian Indo Saracenic style was formless not of carved decoration an anathema hardly qualified as architecture at all Endless battles were fought between him and Viceroy Hardinge over architectural style Lutyens wanted classical the architecture of the Empire Hardinge wanted elements of the Indian vernacular for political reasons 36 An unapologetic spokesman of British imperialism he built the Viceroy s Palace as a symbol of glory of the Raj and considered Indians to be primitive as yet on the verge of civilization who deserved to be ruled in perpetuity by the British 37 Spain 1915 1928 edit In Madrid Lutyens work can be seen in the interiors of the Liria Palace a neoclassical building which was severely damaged during the Spanish Civil War 38 The palace was originally built in the 18th century for James FitzJames 1st Duke of Berwick and still belongs to his descendants Lutyens reconstruction was commissioned by Jacobo Fitz James Stuart 17th Duke of Alba The Duke had been in contact with Lutyens while serving as the Spanish ambassador to the Court of St James s Between 1915 and 1928 Lutyens also produced designs for a new palace for the Duke of Alba s younger brother Hernando Fitz James Stuart 18th Duke of Penaranda The palace of El Guadalperal as it was to be called would have been if built Edwin Lutyens s largest country house 39 nbsp 13 Mansfield Street Marylebone Lutyens London home from 1919 to his death in 1944Personal life editLutyens married Lady Emily Bulwer Lytton 1874 1964 on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth Hertfordshire She was third daughter of Edith nee Villiers and the 1st Earl of Lytton a former Viceroy of India Lady Emily had proposed to Lutyens two years before the wedding and her parents disapproved of the marriage 40 Their marriage was largely unsatisfactory practically from the start with Lady Emily developing interests in theosophy Eastern religions and being drawn both emotionally and philosophically to Jiddu Krishnamurti 41 They had five children Barbara Lutyens 1898 1981 second wife of Euan Wallace 1892 1941 Minister of Transport 42 Robert Lutyens 1901 1971 interior designer Designed the facade used for over 40 Marks amp Spencer stores 43 Ursula Lutyens 1904 1967 wife of the 3rd Viscount Ridley They were the parents of the 4th Viscount Ridley 1925 2012 and of the Cabinet Minister Nicholas Ridley 1929 1993 Nicholas Ridley was the father of Edwin Lutyens biographer Jane Ridley Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens 1906 1983 a well known composer Second marriage to the conductor Edward Clark 44 Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens 1908 1999 45 a writer known for her books about the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti During the later years of his life Lutyens suffered with several bouts of pneumonia Death editIn the early 1940s he was diagnosed with cancer He died on 1 January 1944 and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in north London where he had designed the Philipson Mausoleum in 1914 1916 His ashes were buried in the crypt of St Paul s Cathedral beneath a memorial designed by his friend and fellow architect William Curtis Green Major buildings and projects editMain category Works of Edwin Lutyens For a more comprehensive list see List of works by Edwin Lutyens 1897 Munstead Wood Surrey 1899 Orchards Surrey 1900 Goddards Surrey 1901 Tigbourne Court Surrey 1901 Deanery Garden Sonning Berkshire 1903 Papillon Hall Lubenham Leicestershire 1906 Lincoln s Inn House 42 Kingsway London 1911 British Medical Association in Tavistock Square London 46 1912 Great Dixter Northiam East Sussex 1924 37 Midland Bank Poultry 1928 Hyderabad House New Delhi 1929 Rashtrapathi Bhavan New Delhi 1930 Castle Drogo Drewsteignton Devon 1935 The Midland Bank Manchester 1936 Baroda House New Delhi 1936 1938 Villers Bretonneux Australian National Memorial Somme FranceRecognition and legacy edit nbsp Memorial to Lutyens by Stephen Cox 2015 Lutyens received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1921 and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1925 In November 2015 the British government announced that all 44 of Lutyens First World War memorials in Britain note 1 had now been listed on the advice of Historic England and were therefore all protected by law This involved the one remaining memorial the Gerrards Cross Memorial Building in Buckinghamshire being added to the list plus a further fourteen having their statuses upgraded 47 The architectural critic Ian Nairn wrote of Lutyen s Surrey masterpieces in the 1971 Surrey volume of the Buildings of England series while noting that the genius and the charlatan were very close together in Lutyens 48 In the introduction to the catalogue for the 1981 Lutyens exhibition at the Hayward Gallery the architectural writer Colin Amery described Lutyens as the builder of some of our finest country houses and gardens 49 In 2015 a memorial to Lutyens by the sculptor Stephen Cox was erected in Apple Tree Yard Mayfair London adjacent to the studio where Lutyens prepared the designs for New Delhi 50 51 Gallery edit nbsp Goddards Surrey 1898 1900 nbsp Tigbourne Court Surrey 1899 1901 nbsp Greywalls house Lothian Scotland 1901 nbsp Little Thakeham West Sussex 1902 nbsp Daneshill Brick and Tile Company offices near Old Basing Hampshire 1903 52 nbsp Country Life Offices Tavistock Street London 1905 53 nbsp Hestercombe Gardens Somerset with Gertrude Jekyll 1904 1906 nbsp Heathcote Ilkley Yorkshire 1906 1908 nbsp Free Church Hampstead Garden Suburb London 1908 1910 nbsp Anglo Boer War Memorial Johannesburg 1910 nbsp Nashdom Taplow Buckinghamshire 1908 1911 nbsp British Medical Association Tavistock Square London 1911 46 nbsp Henrietta Barnett School Hampstead London 1911 nbsp Johannesburg Art Gallery Klein Street 1910 1915 nbsp Abbey House Barrow in Furness Cumbria 1914 nbsp Portico of the British School at Rome 1916 nbsp Midland Railway War Memorial Derby 1920 nbsp Mells War Memorial Somerset 1921 nbsp The India Gate New Delhi 1921 nbsp Midland Bank Piccadilly London 1922 1923 nbsp Midland Bank Headquarters Poultry London 1924 54 nbsp Victory Square Cenotaph Vancouver 1924 nbsp Britannic House Finsbury Circus London 1921 1925 nbsp Arch of Remembrance Leicester 1925 nbsp Cenotaph Regina Saskatchewan 1926 nbsp British Ambassador s residence Washington D C 1928 nbsp Hallway in British Ambassador s residence Washington D C 1928 nbsp Tower Hill Memorial Trinity Square London 1928 nbsp 67 68 Pall Mall London 1928 55 nbsp Grosvenor House Hotel Mayfair London 1929 nbsp Rashtrapati Bhavan New Delhi 1912 1929 nbsp Castle Drogo Devon 1911 1930 nbsp Social housing for Grosvenor Estate and Westminster Council Page Street London 1928 1930 nbsp Hampton Court Bridge London 1933 nbsp Architectural model of unrealised design for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 1933 56 nbsp Crypt of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral 1933 1941 the only part of Lutyens s design built nbsp Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme France 1928 1932 nbsp Broughton memorial lodge Runnymede Surrey 1930 1932 57 nbsp St Jude s Church Hampstead Garden Suburb London 1909 1935 nbsp Reuters amp Press Association Building 85 Fleet Street London 1934 1938 nbsp Campion Hall Oxford 1936 nbsp Irish National War Memorial Gardens Dublin 1932 1940 nbsp Runnymede Bridge Surrey opened 1961 58 nbsp Tranarossan House Downings County Donegal IrelandPublications editEdwin Lutyens amp Charles Bressey The Highway Development Survey Ministry of Transport 1937 Edwin Lutyens amp Patrick Abercrombie A Plan for the City amp County of Kingston upon Hull Brown London amp Hull 1945 See also edit nbsp Architecture portal nbsp Biography portal nbsp United Kingdom portalHerbert Tudor Buckland a contemporary Arts amp Crafts architect Butterfly plan History of gardening Landscape design history category Hestercombe GardensFootnotes edit 43 in England 1 in WalesReferences edit England amp Wales Deaths 1837 2007 Findmypast Sir Edwin Lutyens British architect Encyclopaedia Britannica Retrieved 31 August 2018 Hussey 1989 p xvii Stamp 2007 p 10 Vale 1992 p 92 Goodman amp Chant 1999 p 320 Pile 2005 p 320 Past Master List PDF Art Workers Guild Archived PDF from the original on 9 October 2022 Stamp G 19 November 1981 The rise and fall and rise of Edwin Lutyens The Architectural Review England amp Wales Births 1837 2006 Findmypast Stamp Gavin Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer 1869 1944 architect Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 34638 Subscription or UK public library membership required Oram Hugh 7 April 2015 An Irishman s Diary on Sir Edwin Lutyens and Ireland Irish Times Retrieved 18 March 2017 Mary Constance Elphinstone Wemyss born Lutyens 1868 1951 MyHeritage Retrieved 17 January 2020 Ormrod Maxwell Ayrton Archived 4 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine at scottisharchitects org uk accessed 4 February 2009 Muthesius 1979 p 55 Gradidge 1981 pp 27 31 Chakraborty Debiparna 1 January 2017 10 Interesting Facts about Sir Edwin Lutyens the Architect Who Designed Most of New Delhi www vagabomb com Retrieved 11 November 2022 Canadian Encyclopedia Monuments World Wars I and II Archived from the original on 10 August 2011 Brown 1997 pp 118 119 Newman 2013 p 539 No 30607 The London Gazette 2 April 1918 p 4026 Sir Edwin Lutyens Artist Royal Academy of Arts www royalacademy org uk Retrieved 16 January 2018 No 32942 The London Gazette 3 June 1924 p 4429 Conserving the Lutyens cathedral model Liverpool museums Archived 2 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Liverpoolmuseums org uk Retrieved on 29 July 2013 Stamp Gavin 19 November 1981 The rise and fall and rise of Edwin Lutyens Architectural Review Alistair Rowan The Buildings of Ireland North West Ulster p 169 Yale University Press New Haven and London 2003 originally published by Penguin London 1979 Tra na Rosann Anoige Retrieved 17 September 2019 Irving 1981 p 29 Delhi heritage tour From Tughlaq to British era cycle your way to historical monuments Hindustan Times 8 June 2017 Retrieved 3 July 2017 Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens English architect and designer Archived from the original on 20 December 2016 Retrieved 3 July 2017 India s roads Whose space is it anyway 3 July 2017 Retrieved 3 July 2017 Lutyens himself designed only four bungalows Hindustan Times 9 June 2011 Archived from the original on 22 October 2012 Prakash Om 2005 Cultural History Of India New Age International New Delhi ISBN 81 224 1587 3 p 217 No 33566 The London Gazette Supplement 1 January 1930 p 5 The Architect And His Wife The Life of Edwin Lutyens The Guardian Retrieved 25 January 2014 Ridley Jane The Architect and His Wife A Life of Edwin Lutyens p 257 Varma Pavan 2010 Becoming Indian The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity Allen Lane pp 98 105 ISBN 978 0 670 08346 6 Stamp Gavin Richardson Margaret 1983 Lutyens and Spain AA Files 3 51 59 JSTOR 29543345 Basarrate Inigo 2017 Edwin Lutyens in Spain The Palace of El Guadalperal Architectural History 60 303 339 doi 10 1017 arh 2017 10 S2CID 194864199 Lutyens 1980 p 52 Ridley 2002 pp 257 258 Percy amp Ridley 1988 p 53 Robert Lutyens Dictionary of Scottish Architects Retrieved 13 July 2016 Clark Thomas Edward Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed Oxford University Press doi 10 1093 ref odnb 40709 Subscription or UK public library membership required Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens 1909 1999 National Portrait Gallery Retrieved 13 July 2016 a b About BMA House BMA House Retrieved 12 July 2016 National Collection of Lutyens War Memorials Listed Historic England Historic England 7 November 2015 Retrieved 9 November 2015 Nairn Pevsner amp Cherry 1971 p 70 Amery Richardson amp Stamp 1981 p 8 Cox Stephen Apple Tree Yard Sculpture Honours Spirit of Lutyens The Lutyens Trust Retrieved 10 May 2019 Hancock Michaila 3 June 2015 Eric Parry completes St James s Square office Architects Journal London Retrieved 10 May 2019 Wright Tony February 2002 Sir Edwin Lutyens and the Daneshill Brickworks British Brick Society Information 87 22 26 ISSN 0960 7870 Country Life building Tavistock Street London RIBA Retrieved 12 July 2016 Historic England Details from listed building database 1064598 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 13 July 2016 To Plan a Tour of Lutyens Buildings The Luytens Trust Retrieved 13 July 2016 Conserving the Lutyens cathedral model Liverpool Museums Retrieved 13 July 2016 Historic England Details from listed building database 1189781 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 13 July 2016 Baldwin Peter ed 2004 The motorway achievement London Telford p 308 ISBN 9780727731968 Sources editAmery Colin Richardson Margaret Stamp Gavin 1981 Lutyens The Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens London Arts Council of Great Britain ISBN 9780728703032 Brown Jane 1997 Lutyens and the Edwardians London Penguin Books ISBN 9780140242690 Dunster David 1986 Edwin Lutyens London Academy Editions ISBN 9780312239183 OCLC 757002578 Goodman David C Chant Colin 1999 European Cities amp Technology Industrial to Post industrial City Routledge ISBN 9780415200820 OCLC 807453904 Gradidge Roderick 1981 Edwin Lutyens Architect Laureate London George Allen amp Unwin ISBN 9780047200236 OCLC 924831360 Hussey Christopher 1989 1950 The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens Woodbridge Antique Collectors Club ISBN 978 0 907462 59 0 Irving Robert Grant 1981 Indian Summer Lutyens Baker and Imperial Delhi London Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 02422 7 Lutyens Edwin 1989 Clayre Percy Jane Ridley eds The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his wife Lady Emily London Hamish Hamilton ISBN 9780241124765 OCLC 466283124 Lutyens Mary 1980 Edwin Lutyens London John Murray ISBN 978 0 7195 3777 6 OCLC 469680629 Muthesius H 1979 1904 The English House Single volume ed Frogmore Granada Publishing ISBN 978 0 258 97101 7 Nairn Ian Pevsner Nikolaus Cherry Bridget 1971 Surrey The Buildings of England Middlesex England Penguin Books ISBN 978 0 300 09675 0 Newman John 2013 Kent North East and East The Buildings of England London and New Haven CT Yale University Press ISBN 9780300185065 Pile John F 2005 A History of Interior Design Laurence King Publishing ISBN 9781856694186 Ridley Jane 2002 Edwin Lutyens His Life His Wife His Work London Chatto amp Windus ISBN 978 0 7011 7201 5 Stamp Gavin 2006 The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme 2007 ed London Profile Books ISBN 978 1 86197 896 7 Vale Lawrence J 1992 Architecture Power and National Identity New Haven and London Yale University Press ISBN 9780300049589 Wilhide Elizabeth 2000 Sir Edwin Lutyens Designing in the English Tradition London Pavilion Books ISBN 9781857936889 OCLC 469379799 Further reading editHopkins Andrew Stamp Gavin eds 2002 Lutyens Abroad the Work of Sir Edwin Lutyens Outside the British Isles London British School at Rome ISBN 0 904152 37 5 Petter Hugh 1992 Lutyens in Italy The Building of the British School at Rome London British School at Rome ISBN 0 904152 21 9 Skelton Tim Gliddon Gerald 2008 Lutyens and the Great War London Frances Lincoln ISBN 978 0 7112 2878 8 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Edwin Lutyens nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to Edwin Lutyens nbsp Wikisource has the text of a 1922 Encyclopaedia Britannica article about Edwin Lutyens The Lutyens Trust Jane Ridley Architect for the metropolis City Journal Spring 1998 The creations of Sir Edwin Lutyens Ward s Book of Days The cathedral that never was exhibition of Lutyens cathedral model at the Walker Art Gallery archived 17 December 2007 Louvet Solange de Givry Jacques The history of the Bois des Moutiers An 1898 house in France designed by Lutyens and its garden designed by Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll Collection of over 2000 photos of Lutyens work on Flickr Cultural officesPreceded bySir William Llewellyn President of the Royal Academy1938 1944 Succeeded byAlfred MunningsCourt officesPreceded bySir Malcolm Fraser 1st Baronet Registrar of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor1941 1944 Succeeded bySir Thomas Lumley Smith Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Edwin Lutyens amp oldid 1199452386, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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