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Jane Ridley

Jane Ridley lives in London and teaches History at Buckingham University. Her books include Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli and The Architect and his Wife (Chatto), a biography of Edwin Lutyens.

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Lutyens and Le Corbusier: from heritage to history

The contrasting legacy of two “artist-architects”, each active in India on either side of the country’s independence, illustrates the need to see the architectural past in aesthetic terms. And it is Lutyens’ elemental classicism, not the modernism of his counterpart, that is a rich source of learning today.