Sir Edwin Lutyens

Clive Aslet is a visiting professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge and the publisher of Triglyph Books. For many years he worked at the magazine Country Life, where he was editor from 1993 until 2006. Since publishing The Last Country Houses with Yale University Press in 1982, he has written over 30 books. His titles for Triglyph include Old Homes, New Life: The resurgence of the British country house and Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter. In 2021 he became chair of the Lutyens Trust. He is also a trustee of INTBAU and for a decade he was the founding honorary secretary of what is now the Twentieth Century Society. Married with three children, Clive lives in London and Ramsgate.

• Introduction; The Surrey Hills; Oh Amy It's Splendid; Boom It Like Everything; Tiger, Tiger; What Fun It Would Be; The High Game; Indestructible, Severe and Magnificent; Byzantine-cum-Nedi; Wren Could Never Have Done This; Known Unto God; I Don't Know What You Mean By 'About'; The Biggest Dome In Christendom; Why Not Ask Me; Envoi; Chronology; Endnotes; Further Reading; Picture Credits; Index

'Charming, erudite, amusing. Aslet's energy, enthusiasm and learning, always lightly worn, are prodigious'. David Dimbleby, Broadcaster. 'As someone who absolutely adores Lutyens and his work I didn't believe there was anything more I could discover about him, then this beautiful book comes along'. George Clarke, Architect. 'Lively and scholarly, Aslet's concise biography, elegantly argues for Lutyens's place at the top table of British architecture'. Loyd Grossman, Broadcaster