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He studied Architecture at South Kensington School of Art , London from 1885 to 1887.

After college he joined the Ernest George and Harold Ainsworth Peto architectural practice. It was here that he first met Sir Herbert Baker .

He began his own practice in 1888. His first commission being a private house at Crooksbury, Farnham, Surrey. During this work, he met Gertrude Jekyll. In 1896Events January 4 Utah is admitted as the 45th U. January 5 An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Rontgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays. January 12 H. Smith takes the first X-ray photograph. January 18 The X-ray machine is exhib he began work on a house for Miss Jekyll at Munstead Wood, GodalmingGodalming is a town in the Waverley district of the county of Surrey, England, seven kilometers south of Guildford. It is built on the banks of the River Wey. The town has existed since Saxon times, and probably earlier. It is mentioned in the will of Kin, Surrey. The two of them also worked together as garden designers.

The result of this union was the "Lutyens-Jekyll" garden, overflowing with hardy shrub and herbaceous planting within a firm classicising architecture of stairs and balustraded terraces. This combined style, of the formal with the informal, exemplified by brick paths, softened by billowing herbaceous borders, full of lilies, lupins, delphiniums, and lavender was in direct contrast to the very formal bedding schemes favoured by the previous generation in the Victorian eraJune 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. The Victorian Era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. It is often defined as the years from 1837 to 1901, when Queen Victoria. This new natural style was to define the "English garden" until modern times.

Initially, his designs all followed the Arts and Crafts style, but in the early 1900sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s Years: 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 Events and Trends Technology Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first doc his work became more ClassicalThe word classical has several meanings: Pertaining to the societies of the classical antiquity, ancient Greece or Rome. For example, the Greek and Latin languages, classical architecture and the cult of the Olympian gods. See also Greek mythology and Rom in style. His commissions were of a varied nature from private houses to two churches for the new Hampstead Garden SuburbHampstead Garden Suburb in north west London, England, is an example of early 20th Century domestic architecture and town planning. It was founded in 1907 by Henrietta Barnett,who, with her husband, Canon Barnett, had started Whitechapel Art Gallery and T, London to Castle DrogoCastle Drogo is a castle in Drewsteignton, Devon, England. It was built in the 1910s and 1920s for Julius Drewe (businessman, and founder of the Home and Colonial Stores to designs by architect Edwin Lutyens. The granite-built stately home borrows styles, Drewsteignton, Devon and on to his contributions to India's new imperial capital New Delhi (where he worked with Herbert Baker). Here he added elements of local architectural styles to his classicism, and based his urbanization scheme on Mughal water gardens.

After the Great War, he was involved with the creation of monuments to commemorate the fallen. The best known of these monuments are the Cenotaph, London and the memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Thiepval. He also designed the War Memorial Gardens in Dublin, which were restored to their full splendour in the 1990s. Other works include the Tower Hill memorial, and a memorial in Victoria Park in Leicester.

He was knighted in 1918, and elected to the Royal Academy in 1921.

Whilst work continued in New Delhi, Lutyens continued to receive other commissions including several commercial buildings in London and the British Embassy in Washington, DC.

In 1924 he completed the supervision of the construction of what is perhaps his most popular design: Queen Mary's Dolls' House. This four storey Palladian villa was built in 1/12th scale and is now a permanent exhibit in the public area of Windsor Castle. It was not conceived or built as a plaything for children - its goal was to serve as an exhibit of the finest British craftmanship of the period.

He was commissioned in 1929 to design a new Roman Catholic cathedral in Liverpool. Work on this magnificent building started in 1933, but was stopped during the Second World War (after the war the project ended due to a shortage of funding, with only the crypt completed). (The architect of the present Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, which was built over the crypt and consecrated in 1967, was Sir Frederick Gibberd.)

Lutyens married Lady Emily Lytton on 4 August, 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. They had five children. In the later years of his life he suffered with several bouts of pneumonia. In the early 1940s he was diagnosed with cancer. He died on New Year's Day in 1944.