"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.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
ISBN
9781739731434 (hardcover)
1739731433 (hardcover)
OCLC
1412196772
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