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In the exclusionary world of high modern architecture, it is disconcerting to discover that two icons of the movement both admired the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens – an architect who had little or no interest in modernism. Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright created very different buildings, and the two men did not even like each other. However, they shared a common fascination for the distinctively non-international style architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. This polemical text is an account of why this occurred. By exposing common aesthetic and structural themes in the architecture of these three giants - including buildings in the Indian cities of New Delhi and Chandigarh - the author explains why Wright and Corbu may have shared more common ground with Lutyens than with much of the world of contemporary modernism.
About the Author:
Allan Greenberg is an international architect, based in America. He studied in South Africa then worked in the offices of leading Scandinavian modernist architects Jørn Utzon and Viljo Revell before completing his formal education at Yale University. He has been extremely influential in furthering the study and practice of architectural tradition through his books and articles, teaching at Yale and Columbia, public lectures, and architectural commissions.
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