Described as the best architectural biography ever written, this is a highly authoritative and readable account of Britain's finest architect since Wren.
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Masterly Study of Masterly Architect: Lutyens as True Genius,
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This review is from: Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens (Hardcover)
As this century draws to a close, Lutyens' star is on the rise, and has been for several years. The perspective of history now enables us to see this master form-giver as practicing the ancient rules of classicism in a fresh and unconventional way, not as some retardataire, architectural anachronism. Suffused with romance yet buffeted by dashed expectations, Lutyens' life should be in line for treatment as a Merchant-Ivory feature-length film. His architectural legacy, in most instances compromised by subsequent owners, German bombs and inexcusable neglect, remains nonetheless unassailable. Hussey's book, though old, is not dated. In fact, according to the distinguished historian of architecture David Watkins, it is "the finest architectural biography" in English. Expensive and lengthy it is; it is also the most engaging and fulfilling study of a 20th-century architect I have ever read
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