Sketches by Edwin Lutyens1994

Edwin Lutyens's wonderful fund of ideas and inventions were expressed not in speech but drawings. This book presents eighty of his original sketch designs, arranged in chronological order to cover the development of his careers. They allow us to understand his manner of working - how often a building was realised from the start in a small thumb-nail perspective - and show his ability to think and draw 'in the round', as an artist or sculptor might.

This feeling for three-dimensional form enabled Lutyens to conceive the complex geometrical buildings and monuments of his late career - the Cenotaph in Whitehall, the great Memorials to the Missing in France and his monumental project for Liverpool Cathedral. The sketches also show his gift for drawing and painting in watercolour, which he...