The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens by Hussey, Christopher - 1985

E-169: Antique Collectors Club Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. Hardcover. Large 4to. Antique Collectors Club Ltd. 1985. Xxii, 602 pages, illustrated with 172 plates. Facsimile reprint of the original edition of 1950. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Exhaustive biography of architect Edwin Lutyens. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, KCIE, PRA, FRIBA (29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) 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". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century". Lutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India. 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. E-169; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 602 pages .