Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens , (born the March 29th 1869 and dead the 1944, with London) is a British Architecte known for its architectural style, adaptation of architecture tradionnalist to the needs for his time.

Lutyens is the son of the painter and sculptor Edwin Landseer.

It carries out many residences of countryside and played a crucial role in the design of the administrative buildings of New Delhi (known under the name of the " Delhi de Lutyens").

During noombreuses years, Lutyens works with Bloomsbury Square, London. He is sometimes regarded as more the British great architect.

Biography

Lutyens studies architecture with South Kensington School off Art, of 1885 to 1887. He works then at the architectural firm of Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto. He meets Herbert Baker there.

He opens his own office in 1888. He meets the landscape designer and horticultrice Gertrude Jekyll. In 1896, it starts to work on a project of house for Jekyll with Munstead Wood, Godalming, in the Surrey. It is the beginning of a profitable collaboration on many constructions of Lutyens.

New Delhi

Conceived by Lutyens on a score of years, New Delhi is selected to replace Calcutta as a seat of the British government in India in 1912, the project is finished in 1929 and is inaugurated in 1931.

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