Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens

THE GREATEST BRISTISH ARCHITECT

BIOGRAPHY
British architect who is known for
imaginatively adapting traditional
architectural styles to the requirements of
his era.
In recognition of his contribution, New
Delhi is also known as "Lutyens' Delhi".
In collaboration withSir Herbert Baker,
he was also the main architect of several
monuments in New Delhi such as
theIndia Gate, he also designed
Viceroy's House, which is now known as
theRashtrapati
Bhavan.
Lutyens'
Delhi is an
area in New
Delhi, Delhi, India, named after the
leading British architect Edwin
Lutyens (18691944), who was
responsible for much of the
architectural design and building
when India was part of the British
Empire in the 1920s and 1930s. This
also includes the Lutyens Bungalow

LUTYENS PRINCIPLES
Lutyens' controlling sense of proportion
and organizational principles eventually
led him to explore the harmony, strength,
and repose of classical design.
Characterized by a highly controlled use of
form and mass, apparent adherence to rules
of Classical proportioning and the sparing
use of symbolic Classical motifs
Counter to the romantic, rambling plans of
his earlier houses, Lutyens increasingly
began to incorporate a strong sense of
balance, symmetry, and order in his
designs.
Lutyens viewed the manipulation and
organization of the classical vocabulary as
a great intellectual game to be played by the
architect to create unique, individual designs.
His first exercise in this Neo-Classical idiom
came with the commission for Heathcoate,
Ilkley, Yorkshire (completed in 1906). Here
the plan is strictly symmetricala large

MAJOR WORKS

-IRISH NATIONAL WAR MUSEUM GARDEN

-DESIGN OF NEW DELHI
-INDIA GATE ,
-RASHTRAPATHI BHAVAN ,INDIA
-CAMPION HALL,EXFORD

IRISH NATIONAL WAR

MEMORIALGARDEN
Designed by the great memorialist
SirEdwin Lutyens who had
already landscaped designed
several sites in Ireland and around
Europe.
The sunken Garden of
Remembrance surrounds aStone
of Remembrance of Irish granite
symbolising an altar, which weighs
seven and a half tons.
The dimensions of this are
identical to First World War
memorials found throughout the
world, and is aligned with the Great
Cross of Sacrifice and central
avenue.
The sunken Garden of
Remembrance surrounds aStone
of Remembrance of Irish granite

THE PLANNING OF LUTYENS

DELHI

The Initial Design Of New

Delhi
Lutyens
had
initially
designed
Delhi with all
the streets
crossing at right angles,
much like in New York.
However, Lord Hardinge told
him of the dust storms that
sweep the landscape in
these parts, insisting on
roundabouts, hedges and
trees to break their force,
giving him the plans of
Rome, Paris and Washington
to study and apply to Delhi.

FEATURES

1.The plan reflects Lutyens transcendent fervour for geometric

symmetry, which is expressed through amazing sequences of
triangles
and hexagons, through sightlines and axes.

2. Lutyens plan is also

remarkable
for the generous green spaces,
lawns, watercourses, flower
and fruit-bearing trees, and
their integration with the parks
developed around monuments.
3. The attempt was to include
all
natural and historical
wonders in the new city.

The Road Network

Besides the major

Pathway, there were
extremely wide avenues.
The original design of the
road network was capable
of accommodating 6000
vehicles, however these
avenues, had the potential
of increasing their
carriageway-the reason
why the road layout has
survived till today.

In general the road

network consisted of
diagonals and radials, at
30 degree/ 60 degree
angles to the main axis,
forming triangles and
hexagons.

Lutyens Delhi - Zoning

GOVERNME
NT COMPLX
BUNGLOW
ZONE
COMMERCI
AL
DISTRICT

Drawbacks

In this whole process almost no

attention was paid to the problems
of Old Delhi. Due to the creation of
New Delhi, Old Delhi experienced
a 28% surge in population from
1916-1926 resulting in the spilling
over of the population from inside
the walled city to the Paharganj
area, whose restructuring was later
abandoned by Lutyens due to
resource constraints.
Also, no provision of housing was
premeditated for the large no. of
skilled and unskilled workers which
immigrated in for the construction
work of New Delhi.
This negligence of the planners
towards Old Delhi resulted in its
transformation to a large slum area
through deterioration and
dilapidation.

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http://www.wmf.org/sites/default/files/wmf_article/pg_38-43_new_del
hi.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/doc/169348503/ppt-on-Edwin-Lutyens-and-He
rbert-Baker#scribd
http://text.123doc.org/document/1215326-edwin-lutyens-and-newdelhi-an-ideal-garden-city-ppt.htm