Sir Edwin Lutyens was a renowned English architect, known for his versatile designs that displayed an amalgamation of traditional and contemporary styles. Despite being deprived of conventional education due to his illness, he developed and polished his designing skills all by himself. Lutyens, however, did attend college, but dropped out in the final year to start an internship. Nevertheless, he did not continue his internship for long and soon began practicing independently. The projects he received because of his association with personalities such as Gertrude Jekyll and Edward Hudson earned him immense fame. His styles underwent several transitions in the course of his illustrious career. Lutyens's designs of the castles and country houses in England; war memorials in several countries; and the new British Indian capital, Delhi (1912), speak volumes of his remarkable ability to consolidate ideas from various parts of the world.
