Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, Hon. FAIA

Year Awarded: 1925
Born: March 29, 1869; London, England
Died: 1944;


Projects
• Cenotaph, London
• Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval
• War Memorial Gardens, Dublin
• Tower Hill Memorial
• Memorial in Victoria Park, Leicester
• British Embassy, Washington, D.C.
• Castle Drogo, Drewsteignton, England


Biography
Sir Edwin Lutyens studied at South Kensington School of Art, London, from 1885 to 1887, before becoming a student of Ernest George in 1887. He worked with Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto until he set up his own practice in 1888. His earliest work was designing small houses in Surrey; he then moved on to building large country estates.

Following World War I, Lutyens was called on to design monuments for those who had died in the war. Among his best known are the Cenotaph in London and the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme in northern France. He also designed the War Memorial Gardens in Dublin.

Lutyens spent the majority of his late career in New Delhi, where he was responsible for much of the city’s design after it became the seat of the British Indian government in 1912. His work there, done in a new style of classical columns that he invented, became know as the Delhi Order.

Lutyens was knighted in 1918 and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1921. That year, he also received the Royal Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 1938 he served as president of the Royal Academy.