Sir Edwin Lutyens’s agreement with the Commission was terminated on 31st December 1930 but he then became Honorary Consulting Architect.įollowing on from his work with the Commission, Lutyens designed the Cenotaph at Whitehall as well as War Memorials at Leicester, Northampton, Southampton, Colombo and Dublin. Lutyens also designed several of the Commission’s Memorials to the Missing, including Arras, Thiepval, Villers-Bretonneux (Australian), Grevillers (New Zealand), Delhi (India), the Freetown Memorial, Sierra Leone and the Mercantile Marine Memorial at Tower Hill, London. He was also responsible for the Great War Stone (1917) or Stone of Remembrance, a key feature in the Commission’s cemeteries. As Principal Architect, Lutyens supervised the design of 126 cemeteries, including Etaples Military Cemetery, the largest of the Commission’s cemeteries in France. Like Sir Herbert Baker, Lutyens was invited by Sir Fabian Ware to visit the battlefields on the Western Front in 1917. On 5 March 1918, Lutyens was appointed as one of the Commission’s Principal Architects for France. In 1918, he designed the temporary War Shrine for Hyde Park and was also knighted. In 1912, he was appointed Architect for New Delhi, later the seat of the Government of India. Lutyens also designed Rand Memorial and Johannesburg Art Gallery (1911). In 1909, he was architect for Hampstead Garden Suburb. Munstead Wood, Orchards, Deanery Gardens, Tigbourne Court, Marshcourt, Heathcote, etc.). He started as a pupil in the office of Ernest George in 1887 before setting up his independent practice from 1889 onwards, distinguishing himself mainly for country house work (e.g. Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE RA FRIBA was a British architect and one of the Commission's Principal Architects in France after the First World War. The information in the above entry has been used with permission kindly granted by Gavin Stamp, author of Silent Cities (London: Royal Institute of British Architects, 1977) Lutyens Sir Edwin Landseer (1869-1944) architect
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