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View of the rear of Groote Schuur, c. 1905. The fourth son of nine children of Thomas Henry Baker (1824–1904), J.P., of Owletts, a gentleman farmer and director of the Kent Fire and Life Insurance Company, by his wife Frances Georgina (née Davis), [4] [5] Herbert was from the outset exposed to a tradition of good craftsmanship, preserved through isolation in the neighbourhood of his home in ...
Robert Grant Irving is an author and lecturer specializing in the history of art and architecture of Britain and the British Empire. His book Indian Summer: Lutyens, Baker, and Imperial Delhi (Yale University Press, 1981 and Oxford University Press, 1982) is the story of the creation of New Delhi from 1911 to 1931, the grandest architectural undertaking in the history of the British Empire.
Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens OM KCIE PRA ... In collaboration with Sir Herbert Baker, ... Lutyens's work in New Delhi is the focus of Robert Grant Irving's book Indian ...
This list of works by Edwin Lutyens provides brief details of some of the houses, gardens, public buildings and memorials designed by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869–1944). Lutyens was a British architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era.
Sir Edwin Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker were selected to design the area in a traditional Indian fashion. [2] The architects decided that the area where the foundation stones of Delhi were planted, Coronation Park, was an unsuitable area. [7]
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944) Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928) ... Herbert Baker (1862–1946) (South Africa, though he returned to England in 1913)
Lutyens built Marshcourt for Herbert "Johnnie" Johnson, a trader/stockjobber on the London Stock Exchange, where he had accumulated a fortune of half a million pounds. He bought a hillside site overlooking the River Test [ 3 ] (on a ridge above a much older manor house in the valley bottom, Marsh Court Manor), and approached Lutyens after ...
The British invited Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker to design the government buildings. This area would also be called Lutyens' Delhi in honor of the architect. Members of Lutyens' team of architects included Walter Sykes George, Arthur Gordon Shoosmith and Henry Medd. It is reported that Lutyens was reluctant to incorporate Indian features in ...