Edwin Lutyens - Country Houses

Gavin Stamp

Monacelli press - USA

2009

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-10: 1580932371

Country Life published articles about virtually all his buildings shortly after their completion, recording them as the architect intended, creating a visual archive which is the source for this selection of outstanding photographs of Lutyens’s domestic architecture. His selection of twenty-two houses, illustrates the architect’s dual achievements of both vernacular tradition and of the Classical language of architecture. There are examples of his Surrey vernacular style (with its gables, timber, and planes of tiled roof), such as Fulbrook House - one of his earliest masterpieces; Deanery Garden, designed with the garden in mind for Hudson; early Arts and Crafts houses, such as Goddards and Little Thakeham; his composed Classical houses, such as Heathcote, and his grandest country house of all, Middleton Park, built between the two World Wars. Here, too, are examples of his enlargements and alterations to existing buildings, such as Lindisfarne Castle, and his creation of the epitome of castle style - Castle Drogo.