Edwin Lutyens

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869 to 1944) was a British architect, born in Kensington, London, who made his name by adapting traditional building styles to the needs of his own time. From about 1888 he designed English country houses in an Arts and Crafts manner drawn from Tudor architecture and the vernacular of south-east England, often with gardens planned in partnership with Gertrude Jekyll; Munstead Wood, Tigbourne Court and Goddards in Surrey belong to this period. After about 1900 his work turned toward a more conventional Classicism, seen in Castle Drogo in Devon. He was one of three principal architects of the Imperial War Graves Commission and designed the Stone of Remembrance used in its larger cemeteries. His largest commission was New Delhi, laid out from 1912 with Herbert Baker, where he designed the Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan. He received the RIBA Royal Gold Medal in 1921 and the AIA Gold Medal in 1925.