Sir Edwin Lutyens : Britain's greatest architect? / Clive Aslet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aslet, Clive, 1955- author.

Series:

Triglyph people

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944.

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer.

Architects--Great Britain--Biography.

Architects.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Triglyph Books, 2024.

Summary:

"Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was one of the great architects of the twentieth century. His Edwardian country houses, surrounded by rhapsodic gardens, beguiled clients with their romance and wit. After 1918, the war memorials that he created symbolised a grieving nation's sense of loss. In the new capital of the British Raj, New Delhi, the Viceroy's House or Rashtrapati Bhavan had a footprint bigger than Versailles. His unfinished Liverpool Cathedral would have rivalled St Peter's in Rome. Intensely shy, Lutyens hid his personality behind puns and jokes - and yet he could be called 'part mystic', a reference to an inner profundity. Rich in stories, this entertaining and stylish short biography is a major new study incorporating fresh research which shows this most charismatic of architects in a new light."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introduction

Surry Hills

Oh Emy it's splendid

Boom it like anything

Tiger, tiger

What fun it would be

High game

Indestructible, severe and magnificent

Byzantine-cum-Nedi

Wren could never have done this

Known unto god

I don't know what you mean by 'about'

Biggest dome in Christendom

Why not ask me?

Envoi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781739731434

1739731433

OCLC:

1412196772