Product Description

This selection of Edward Lutyen's work represents all the phases of his career. Included are examples of his Surrey-vernacular style, early arts and crafts houses and his carefully composed classical houses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #835359 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Gavin Stamp, born in Bromley four years after Lutyens’s death, is an architectural historian and writer. He taught at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art from 1990 until 2003 and is now an independent scholar. He was one of the organizers of the Lutyens Exhibition held at the Hayward Gallery in 1981–82, and served as Chairman of the Twentieth Century Society, where he is now a trustee. Among other writings, his books include The Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London 1839–1879, The English House 1860–1914, Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, and Telephone Boxes.

Customer Reviews

THE GREAT LUTYENS
Lutyens excelled in the creation of great country homes. He designed in the best English tradition and his estates on the exterior often looked like they had been there for decades or a century or more. Of course he is most famous for his Vicroy's House in New Delhi and his work with Baker on the master plan for imperial Delhi of the British Raj. Lutyen's was a British treasure, one of the great traditional English architects. This book has enlightening text and wonderful images, it really shows off his work in its best light. Highly recommended indeed.