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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (/ ˈ l ʌ t j ə n z / LUT-yənz; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
Sir Edwin Lutyens (born March 29, 1869, London, England—died January 1, 1944, London) was an English architect noted for his versatility and range of invention along traditional lines. He is known especially for his planning of New Delhi and his design of the Viceroy’s House there.
This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944). Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp ...
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, one of the greatest architects in British history, left an indelible mark on the landscape of his era through his imaginative adaptation of traditional architectural styles.
Apr 6, 2018 · Edwin Landseer Lutyens’ reputation has not so much ebbed and flowed over the years as gone through a huge tidal range. Lauded during his lifetime, his legacy drifted like a ghost through the decades immediately after his death in 1944.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (29 March 1869 - 1 January 1944) was a British architect who is known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
Edwin Lutyens was the tenth child and ninth boy in a family of thirteen, of Charles and Mary Lutyens of Onslow Square, London, and Thursley in Surrey. Edwin, always called Ned, was so delicate as the result of rheumatic fever as a child that he was the only one of the boys not to go to public school or university.
The story of the rapid rise to fame of the young Lutyens in the 1890s is well known. With a series of superb Romantic vernacular houses to his credit, Lutyens enjoyed a considerable reputation by the first years of the new century and in the 1920s he was a national figure.
1 day ago · Sir Edwin Lutyens built the house for Edward Hudson, owner of 'Country Life', in 1901. Heritage Images/Getty Images. Before the First World War, Edwin ‘Ned’ Lutyens was the busiest country house architect in Britain, at a time when its domestic architecture was the envy of Europe. Often his best work was for clients he liked.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens 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.
Nov 7, 2015 · Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was a key figure in determining how the dead and missing of the First World War should be commemorated. His designs are admired for the universality of their message of honour and remembrance.
Our historical guide on the life and work of British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, including the best sites to visit to see his homes and gardens.
May 10, 2017 · Sir Edwin Lutyens's Iconic Design Explained. How Sir Edwin Lutyens’s painstakingly hand-carved design became the standard-bearer for garden seating. By Hannah Martin. May 10, 2017.
Apr 21, 2020 · A look at the career of Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, one of the great British architects of the 20th century, and a man whose career had marked impact on Country Life.
Born 29th March 1869, Edwin Lutyens started work as an architect in his twentieth year, 1888, and as he worked persistently, with very little time for other interests, his output is enormous. He designed over three-dozen major English country houses and altered and added to many more.
Edwin Lutyens was a self-taught, working-class genius of ethnic Dutch origins. After winning the commission to construct the new capital, Lutyens was presented with the biggest architectural opportunity offered to any British architect since his hero, Sir Christopher Wren, set about rebuilding London after the Great Fire.
The Lutyens Trust is a charity dedicated to preserving and celebrating the achievement of Sir Edwin Lutyens. We promote research and form a vibrant community of members for whom we organise a programme of cultural tours and social events.
The British architect Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was born 150 years ago today, on 29 March 1869. Yet to look at this room, from one of his most successful country houses, he could be mistaken for a man from a much earlier age.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the English architect renowned for transforming India’s capital city, left an enduring legacy that transcends time and borders. His architectural genius is epitomised in iconic landmarks that grace New Delhi’s landscape.
May 20, 2020 · On 12 December 1911, the capital of India was shifted to Delhi from the restive Calcutta (now Kolkata) to cement British control over the centre of the country, and architect Edwin Lutyens was commissioned to create a new British city as a counterpoint to the medieval sprawl of Old Delhi.
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolised a grieving nation’s sense of loss.
Edwin Lutyens by his daughter, Mary Lutyens. Mary Lutyens, 1908-99, a distinguished novelist and biographer, published her ‘personal life’ of her father in 1980. Mary was a founding Trustee and President of The Lutyens Trust.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the gate evokes the architectural style of the ancient Roman triumphal arches such as the Arch of Constantine in Rome, and later memorial arches; it is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai.
Lutyens' Delhi is an area in New Delhi, India, named after the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), who was responsible for much of the architectural design and building during the period of the British Raj, when India was part of the British Empire in the 1920s and 1930s and 1940s.
