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Metiendo Vivendum: ‘By Measure We Must Live’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

John Rollo
John Rollo
Affiliation:
School of Architecture and BuildingDeakin UniversityWoolstores Campus1 Gheringhap StreetGeelong 3217Australia
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Abstract

Convinced that his father's work was arranged around an underlying structure, Robert Lutyens, in 1944, posed the challenge that ‘…someone will someday discover my father's system of applied geometry’. Drawing on an analysis of the ground floor plans of 40 English country houses designed by Edwin Lutyens between 1889 and 1913, this paper considers Robert Lutyens's ‘Armature of Planes’, a theory which he closely associated with the development of his father's work. The analysis reveals Edwin Lutyens's consistent use of ratios to structure his work.

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Theory
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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 147 - 164
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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