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A 6 page paper which examines the work of the famed twentieth-century British architect, including his homes in the Surrey countryside, New Delhi, and Queen Mary’s dollhouse. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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This was no joke; because all of the intensive education and years of apprenticeship training that are required, architects usually consider themselves fortunate if they have built anything at all
by the age of 40 (Barber 40). But Edwin Lutyens was not just any architect; during the late nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century, he was not
only the premier British architect, but was also one of the most admired and revered architects of the period. This would be an amazing statistic in and of itself,
but is made even more spectacular by the fact that Lutyens had very little formal training, and had already built at least a dozen houses before reaching the age of
30 (Barber 48). Edwin ("Ned") Landseer Lutyens was born in humble surroundings in 1869, the 11th of 14 children (Barber 48). The son of an artist, Lutyens artistic soul
must have been genetic, and began to be realized when at the tender age of seven, his family relocated from London to Surrey (Barber 48). An attack of rheumatic
fever left the young boy frail, and therefore he was frequently absent from school (Barber 48). After two years in school, Lutyens left at the age of thirteen to
absorb the lush Surrey countryside, with only a pencil and sketchpad for company. He drew everything he saw, the many cottages, churches, and barns, and examined them from every
conceivable angle (Barber 48). He would subject local craftsmen to relentless questioning about preferred building methods and the materials they used (Barber 48). By the age of 15,
Lutyens "got the architectural idea," was promptly fired from his job and then happily "went off at work and never went to bed!" (Barber 48) From the very beginning,
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