25 Facts About Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.

Lutyens designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings.

Lutyens played an instrumental role in designing and building New Delhi, which would later on serve as the seat of the Government of India.

Lutyens was elected Master of the Art Workers' Guild in 1933.

Lutyens studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art, London, from 1885 to 1887.

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Lutyens began his own practice in 1888, his first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey.

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.

Lutyens's 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 .

Lutyens designed the Hyderabad House for the last Nizam of Hyderabad, as his Delhi palace.

Lutyens designed many other war memorials, and others are based on or inspired by Lutyens' designs.

Lutyens was knighted in 1918 and elected a Royal Academician in March 1920.

Lutyens was commissioned in 1929 to design a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool.

Lutyens worked on the plan with Sir Patrick Abercrombie and they are credited as its co-authors.

In 1907, Lutyens designed Tranarossan House, located just north of Downings on the Rosguill Peninsula on the north coast of County Donegal.

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.

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.

When composing the plans for New Delhi, Lutyens planned for the new city to lie southwest of the walled city of Shahjahanbad.

In recognition of his architectural accomplishments for the British Raj, Lutyens was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire on 1 January 1930.

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 produced designs for a new palace for the Duke of Alba's younger brother, Hernando Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duke of Penaranda.

Lutyens married Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

Lutyens's was third daughter of Edith and the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India.

Lutyens's ashes were buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, beneath a memorial designed by his friend and fellow architect William Curtis Green.

Lutyens received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1921, and the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1925.

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