Sir Edwin Lutyens was a prominent British architect in the early 20th century known for adapting traditional architectural styles. Some of his most notable works include designing central Delhi, now known as Lutyens' Delhi, as well as buildings like India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhawan. His designs incorporated classical elements like symmetry and order. For Rashtrapati Bhawan, the presidential residence in Delhi, Lutyens used Indian architectural influences like domes and columns while also including features like the grand Durbar Hall. The surrounding Mughal gardens further reflected Lutyens' integration of British and Indian landscaping techniques.

1. SIR EDWIN LUTYENS
PRESENTED BY:
CHANDRIKA RAJARAM

2. INTRODUCTION
• Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens was a British Architect who adapted Traditional
architectural styles during his era.
• He has been referred to as “the greatest British Architect” of his time.
• He has a key role in designing and building the Central Part of Delhi which was maned
as Lutyens’ Delhi after his name.
• He also designed The India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhawan and many other buildings in
India, London and Ireland.

3. EARLY LIFE AND PRACTICE
• He was born in London and grew up in Thursley, the son of Charles
Henry Augustus Lutyens and Mary Theresa Gallwey.
• Studied at South Kensington School of Art, London from 1885 to 1887.
Then joined Ernest George and Harold Peto architectural practice.
• There he met Sir Herbert Baker
• He began his own practice in 1888, with his first project as a private
house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey.
• He met the garden designer and horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll.
• With this, began their professional partnership that led to the designing
of many Lutyens Country Houses.
• The “Lutyens-Jekyll” garden overflowed with hard shrubbery and
herbaceous planting with an architecture of stairs and balustraded traces

4. DESIGN PRINCIPLES
• Lutyens’ controlling sense of proportion and organizational principles
eventually led him to explore the harmony, strength and repose of classical
design.
• He began to incorporate a strong sense of balance, symmetry, and order in his
designs.
• 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. WORKS
• Initially, his designs were all Arts and Crafts style in France, but during the early
1900s his work became more classical in style.
• He built many war memorials, Hampstead Garden Suburb in London, new Roman
Catholic Cathedral.
• He also designed the Rashtrapati Bhawan, The India Gate, Baroda House, Bikaner
House, Hyderabad House, Patiala House, Jaipur House, Janpath and Rajpath

6. NEW DELHI
• The planning of Delhi City was done with all the
streets at right angles, much like New York City.
• The column order that he invented was Delhi
Order.
• Incorporated Traditional Architecture.

7. INDIA GATE BARODA HOUSE

8. JANPATH PARLIAMENT HOUSE

9. RASHTRAPATI BHAWAN
• Rashtrapati Bhawan, formerly known as the Viceroy’s House, is the residence for the President of
India.
• It lies to the western end of Rajpath. It also has the famous Mughal Gardens
DESIGN AND LAYOUT
• It consists of four floors and 340 rooms with a floor area of 19,000m2, using 700 million bricks
and 85,000 m3 of stone with little steel.
• It has Buddhist railings, chhajjas, chhatris, jalis, Indian temple bells in its pillars.
• The dome reminds of the Pantheon of Rome

10. • The layout of the building is designed around a massive square with many courtyards and open
inner areas.
• There are separate wings for the Viceroy and another wing for guests.
• The Viceroy’s wing is a separate four story house in itself, with its own court areas within.
• At the center of the main part of the structure, underneath the dome is the Durbar Hall.
• The Durbar Hall is also known as “Throne Hall”.
• The columns in the Durbar Hall are made are made in Delhi order which combines vertical lines
with the motif of a bell.
• The vertical lines from the column are also used in the frieze around the room.
• Situated on Raisina Hill, the elevation is so much that the top of the India Gate lies at the same
level.

13. It is a copper dome, surmounting a drum, which stands out of the rest of the building.
The dome is more than twice the height of the building itself.
It is supported by evenly spaced columns which form a porch with an open area.
MUGHAL GARDENS
The Mughal gardens are situated at the back of Rashtrapati Bhawan, incorporated with
both Mughal and British Landscaping techniques and feature a great variety of flowers.
Two channels running North to South and East to West divide the garden into square
grids.
There are six lotus fountains at the crossings of these channels rising up to a height of
3.7m.
There are two longitudinal strips of garden, at a higher level of each side of the main
garden.
Roses are the key flowers here.

14. DOMES

15. MUGHAL GARDENS

17. APPRECIATION
• Lutyens received the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1925.
• 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".