Edwin Lutyens

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Edwin Lutyens was a prominent British architect renowned for his influential country house designs and for shaping the architectural layout of New Delhi during the British Raj.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf British architect
architect
human
awardReceived AIA Gold Medal
Royal Gold Medal
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1869-03-29
dateOfDeath 1944-01-01
educatedAt South Kensington School of Art
employer Government of British India
Imperial War Graves Commission
familyName Lutyens
father Charles Henry Augustus Lutyens
fieldOfWork architecture
country house design
urban planning
fullName Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens
givenName Edwin
hasHonor Knight Bachelor
honorificTitle Sir
influenced 20th-century British architecture
New Delhi urban design
influencedBy Arts and Crafts movement
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf Royal Academy of Arts
Royal Institute of British Architects
middleName Landseer
mother Mary Theresa Gallwey
movement Arts and Crafts movement
Edwardian architecture
notableFor country houses in England
designing war memorials
planning of New Delhi during the British Raj
notableStudent Robert Lutyens
notableWork British Embassy, Washington, D.C. (design involvement)
British School at Rome (design involvement)
Castle Drogo
Cenotaph, Whitehall
Deanery Garden, Sonning
Goddards, Abinger
Great Dixter (remodelling)
Greywalls, Gullane
Heathcote, Ilkley
India Gate
Lindisfarne Castle (remodelling)
Little Thakeham
Lutyens Bungalow Zone, New Delhi (planning influence)
Marsh Court
Midland Bank headquarters, Poultry, London (design involvement)
Munstead Wood
New Delhi
Rashtrapati Bhavan
Stone of Remembrance design
The Salutation, Sandwich
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme
Viceroy's House, New Delhi
War graves cemeteries for the Imperial War Graves Commission
Yorkshire Memorial, Le Touret
occupation architect
placeOfBirth Kensington
London
placeOfDeath London
Marylebone
positionHeld President of the Royal Academy
sexOrGender male
sibling Mary Lutyens
spouse Emily Lytton
workLocation London
New Delhi
Surrey


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