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Edwin Lutyens

1869 - 1944

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Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( LUT-yənz; 29 March 1869 – 1 January 1944) was an English architect known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. He designed many English country houses, war memorials and public buildings. In his biography, the writer Christopher Hussey wrote, "In his lifetime (Lutyens) was widely held to be our greatest architect since Wren if not, as many maintained, his superior". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edwin Lutyens has received more than 1,564,678 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Edwin Lutyens is the 317th most popular architect (up from 322nd in 2019), the 2,425th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,586th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Edwin Lutyens ranks 317 out of 518. Before him are Thom Mayne, Helmut Jahn, Augustin Ehrensvärd, Ron Arad, Mauro Codussi, and Dominique Perrault. After him are Carl Humann, Steven Holl, Mammad Hasan Hajinski, Yvonne Farrell, B. V. Doshi, and Michael Graves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Edwin Lutyens ranks 93. Before him are Aleš Hrdlička, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, Ben Turpin, Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria, Harvey Cushing, and Albert Kahn. After him are Hendrikus Colijn, Boris Rosing, Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Robbie Ross, Kijirō Nambu, and Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. Among people deceased in 1944, Edwin Lutyens ranks 198. Before him are Mehdi Huseynzade, Inigo Campioni, Shōji Nishimura, Alexandre Villaplane, Zinaida Portnova, and Olga Sanfirova. After him are Erich Salomon, Anna Kolesárová, Hana Brady, Luigi Maglione, Lucien Pissarro, and Hendrikus Colijn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edwin Lutyens ranks 2,425 out of 8,785. Before him are Nobby Stiles (1942), Cædwalla of Wessex (659), Terry-Thomas (1911), Alfred Fowler (1868), Leslie Phillips (1924), and Delroy Lindo (1952). After him are Richard Cobden (1804), William Hope Hodgson (1877), Pete Burns (1959), Charles Lamb (1775), Terence Davies (1945), and William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Edwin Lutyens ranks 18. Before him are William Kent (1685), Ralph Erskine (1914), Augustus Pugin (1812), Glenn Murcutt (1936), Charles Barry (1795), and John Vanbrugh (1664). After him are Thomas Telford (1757), Charles Cameron (1746), John Soane (1753), Capability Brown (1716), Frederick Catherwood (1799), and Nora Stanton Barney (1883).

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