For many years he worked from offices at 29 Bloomsbury Square, London.Īrchitectural career Private practice Ground floor plan of Munstead Wood It was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker. After college he joined the Ernest George and Harold Peto architectural practice. Lutyens studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art, London, from 1885 to 1887. He was named after a friend of his father, the painter and sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer. His sister, Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens (1868–1951), wrote novels under her married name of Mrs George Wemyss. Lutyens was born in Kensington, London, 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. He was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1933. Many of his works were inspired by Indian architecture. 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. In recognition of his contribution, New Delhi is also known as " Lutyens' 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. The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". 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". He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA ( / 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.
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