All about Sir Edwin Lutyens

1. Akshata P Farakate
S.A.U.D.P
AY B.ARCH

2. 1. He was born on 29th of march 1869 at Kensington, London
and died on 1st January,1944, London.
2. He was the 10th child out of 13 children.
3. He was named after a friend of his father, the painter and
sculptor Edwin Henry Landseer.
4. He suffered from rheumatic fever as a child and was
educated largely at home.
5. His architectural awakening has long been the subject of
mythology, he spent his childhood cycling the countryside
sketching old houses.
6. He studied architecture at South Kensington School of Art
(now the Royal College of Art) from 1885-1887, but only for a
couple of years, after which he joined the office of Ernest
George in 1887.

3. 1. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was a British Architect who adapted
Traditional architectural styles during his era.
2. He has been referred to as “the greatest British Architect” of his
time.
3. He has a key role in designing and building the Central Part of
Delhi which was named as Lutyens’ Delhi after his name.
4. He gained confidence in his work, his social diffidence remained.
Forced into society in dealing with clients, he hid his shyness and
inarticulateness behind a barrage of puns and drawings.
5. He was never without a block of paper and pencils in his pocket
with which to draw with equal ease and rapidity some detail of a
house for a client or a comic sketch.
6. He took particular pleasure in designing nurseries and nursery
furnishings, for then his gaiety, lightness of touch and childlike
imagination could have full play.

4. He began his own practice in
1888.During this work, he met the
garden designer and horticulturist
Gertrude Jekyll. In 1896 he
began work on a house for Jekyll
at Munstead Wood. It was the
beginning of a professional
partnership that would define the
look of many Lutyens country
houses.
01 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.
02 Ground floor plan of Munstead Wood
1. Initially, his designs were all Arts and Crafts style in France, but
during the early 1900s his work became more classical in style.
2. He built many war memorials, Hampstead Garden Suburb in
London, new Roman Catholic Cathedral.
3. He also designed the Rashtrapati Bhawan, The India Gate,
Baroda House, Bikaner House, Hyderabad House, Patiala
House, Jaipur House, Janpath and Rajpath.

5. 1. Lutyens' controlling sense of proportion and organizational
principles eventually led him to explore the harmony, strength,
and repose of classical design.
2. Characterized by a highly controlled use of form and mass,
apparent adherence to rules of Classical proportioning and the
sparing use of symbolic Classical motifs.
3. Counter to the romantic, rambling plans of his earlier houses,
Lutyens increasingly began to incorporate a strong sense of
balance, symmetry, and order in his designs.
4. Lutyens viewed the manipulation and organization of the
classical vocabulary as a great intellectual game to be played by
the architect to create unique, individual designs.
5. His first exercise in this Neoclassical idiom came with the
commission for Heathcote, Ilkley, Yorkshire (completed in
1906).
6. Here the plan is strictly symmetrical—a large central block with
two rectangular side wings.

6. Major buildings and projects
1897: Munstead Wood, Surrey
1899: Orchards, Surrey
1900: Goddards, Surrey
1901: Deanery Garden, Sonning, Berkshire
1903: Papillon Hall, Lubenham, Leicestershire
1911: British Medical Association, Tavistock Square, London]
1912: Great Dixter, Northiam, East Sussex
1928: Hyderabad House, New Delhi
1929: Rashtrapathi Bhavan, New Delhi
1930: Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton, Devon
1935: The Midland Bank, Manchester
1936: Baroda House, New Delhi
1936—1938: Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial, Somme, France

7. Major buildings and projectin India
India gate
Hyderabad house
Jaipur column
Janpath
Rajpath
Rashtrapati bhavan
Baroda house

8. Great Dixter by Edwin LutyensDeanery Garden, from 20th Century World
Architecture
Deanery Garden was built as a weekend residence for Edward
Hudson.It is located in the small village of Sonning, 5 km east of
Reading, on the Thames.
The property is set in 5 acres of walled gardens just off the village
high street and, having had a succession of notable residents, is
currently owned by the former Led Zeppelin guitarist.
The buildings of British architect Edwin Lutyens
(pronounced 'Lutchins') may seem staid and
traditional today, a century after the rise of
Modernism. However, his subtle interpretation of
traditional building techniques, classical forms and
local materials made his works both fine
architectural exemplars of the Arts and Crafts
movement. Here’s how to get a handle on him in
five of his works

9. Grosvenor Estate
Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi
It was built by Lutyens as the British Imperial Viceroy's Palace, the building, as
well as the city it's sited in – also overseen by the architect – incorporates local
materials and influences along with some you might not expect.“Lutyens
combined elements of classical architecture with Indian influences.” explains
our book 20th
Century World Architecture.
Built with local red sandstone, Rashtrapati Bhavan occupies approximately
(215,278 sq ft) of a (330 acre) site that includes gardens also designed by
Lutyens.
A large copper-plated dome and a portico with 12 unevenly spaced columns,
displaying motifs such as acanthus leaves and bells, dominate the facade. The
dome shares aspects of both the Pantheon and the Buddhist stupa at Sanchi.
Grosvenor Estate, London, 1930 “Better known for building
handsome country houses for the well-heeled, Lutyens found
himself working on this social housing project after his
client, the Duke of Westminster, stipulated that he would
donate the land if Lutyens would design the buildings,” writes
William Hall in our book, Brick.
“The striking chequerboard facades give scale to what might
otherwise seem an overwhelming site.”

11. The initial design of New DelhI :
Lutyens had initially designed Delhi with all the
streets crossing at right angles, much like in New
York.
However, Lord Hardinge told him of the dust
storms that sweep the landscape in these parts,
insisting on roundabouts, hedges and trees to
break their force, giving him the plans of Rome,
Paris and Washington to study and apply to Delhi.

12. 4. The plan reflects Lutyens’ “transcendent fervour for geometric symmetry,” which is expressed through amazing
sequences of triangles and hexagons, through sightlines and axes.
5. Lutyens’ plan is also remarkable for the generous green spaces, lawns, watercourses, flower and fruit-bearing trees,
and their integration with the parks developed around monuments.
6. The attempt was to include all natural and historical wonders in the new city.
1. The Road Network Besides the
major Pathway, there were
extremely wide avenues.
2. The original design of the road
network was capable of
accommodating 6000 vehicles,
however these avenues, had the
potential of increasing their
carriageway-the reason why the
road layout has survived till
today.
3. In general the road network
consisted of diagonals and
radials, at 30 degree/ 60 degree
angles to the main axis, forming
triangles and hexagons.

13. 1. The plans of lutyens delhi is
purely geometrical.
2. Three lined streets radiate
from the central vista and
converge into hexagoal nodes.
Intension of layout :
Delhi planned by lutyens was planned on the most spacious garden city
lines with great avenues with classical buildings with lush landscape.
The layouts was governed by three major visual corridors, linking the
government complax with,
1. Jama Masjid
2. Indraprastha
3. Safdarjungs tomb

14. ● Imageability of a city Elements forming the ‘City Image’ :
The “public” image of a city is the overlap of many individual images. Such group images must
exist within the city if it is to be successful in communicating its own identity and possessing
its own imageability.
It is defined by broadly:
1. Paths
2. Nodes
3. Districts
4. Landmarks
5. Edges
6. Element inter relationships

15. 1. The government
complexes consist of
buildings basedon central
avenue
2. Lutyens bunglow zone :
refers to bunglow that lie
south to central vista
3. No building height
dominaates tree height
4. Commericial district : It
consists of connaught
place (inner cirlce and
outer circle) and adjoining
area like kasturba gandhi
marg, barakhamba road.
GOVERNMENT
COMPLEXES
BUNGLOW ZONE
COMMERCIAL DISTRICT

16. ● Refers to bunglow that lies to the south to the central vista
● No building height dominates tree height
● Typology : G+1
Building component is
only 7% of the ground
area.

17. 1. Linear plan
2. Bilateral symmetrical
3. Central visual axis
4. Cross road cuts at 90
degres
Lutyens plan for Washington
Lutyens plan for New Delhi

19. 1. Lutyens received the American Institute of
Architects Gold Medal in 1925.
2. The architectural critic Ian Nairn wrote of
Lutyens Surrey "masterpieces" in the 1971 Surrey
volume of the Buildings of England series, while
noting that; "the genius and the charlatan were
very close together in Lutyens".
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