6 quotes by Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), British (Architect)

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Edwin Lutyens

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

Edwin Lutyens

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

Edwin Lutyens

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

Edwin Lutyens

I advise everyone to build a house at 19. It's such good practice.

Edwin Lutyens

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

Edwin Lutyens

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

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Edwin Lutyens

Born: March 29, 1869
Died: January 1, 1944
Nationality: British
Profession: Architect

Biography

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA FRIBA was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century".

EDWIN LUTYENS

(Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens)