Edwin Lutyens was an Architect with a keen sense of how Architecture is both a product of, and an embodiment of its own context. His residential Architecture is a particular inspiration for my own work... the easy blending of traditional and vernacular elements into eclectic designs that always appear to be perfectly rooted in their time and place. Lutyens was a British contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright, but my impression of Lutyens' practice is that it was quite a bit more like my own, despite the cultural distance. Rather than Wright's famously adversarial and iconoclastic tendencies, it appears that the hallmark of Lutyens' practice was to carefully study the client, the site, the socio-cultural context, and work tirelessly to blend these disparate elements into a design that enhanced them all.
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http://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/gallery/11.htm
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