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Edwin Lutyens

1869–1944 · 20th century

Sir Edwin Lutyens was an English architect known for country houses, war memorials and the planning of New Delhi as the capital of British India. With Herbert Baker he designed the new imperial city, and his Viceroy's House, now Rashtrapati Bhavan, and India Gate combine classical forms with Indian elements. In London he designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall, the national memorial to the dead of the First World War.

Edwin Lutyens
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