RIBA Collections (further drawings are in the RIBA Collections)

Lucknow

Catalogue No. C0350
Date 1920

Uttar Pradesh, India

View on map

Lutyens’s 1920–22 scheme for Lucknow University, commissioned by Sir Harcourt Butler and developed over visits in 1921–22, remained unbuilt.

Description

In 1920 Lutyens was invited by Sir Harcourt Butler to submit designs for Lucknow University. The scheme took him to Lucknow in 1921 and 1922 but nothing came of his proposals. (Amery et al, 1981, cat no.478)

Bibliography

Amery, C., Richardson, M. and Stamp, G., (1981) Lutyens, the Work of the English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944): Hayward Gallery London, 18 November 1981 – 31 January 1982. London: Arts Council of Great Britain., Richardson, M. (1994) Sketches by Edwin Lutyens: Drawings from the Collection of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA Drawings Monographs No. 1). London: Wiley.

Also cited in