Lutyens Plan for New Delhi

A.G. Krishna Menon, Dhiru Thadani

Host & Moderator: Martin Lutyens & Robin Prater

In 1912, Edwin Lutyens was asked to join what became the Delhi Planning Commision, charged with advising on the siting and layout of a new capital for India. Although Lutyens went on to design a number of the buildings in New Delhi, notably Rashtrapati Bhavan, this webinar focuses on the theories and concepts of the planning for the new city. Martin Lutyens discusses the work at New Delhi within the context of Edwin Lutyens’s overall body of work. Dhiru Thadani looks at the connectivity between the planning of New Delhi and the layouts of other major capitals, such as Paris and Washington, D.C. Krishna Menon shares his insights into how the flexibility of Lutyens’s plan for New Delhi allowed the city to transition into the modern Republican city that it is today.


Panelists:

Dhiru A. Thadani
Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA, APA, FCNU, ISOCARP, NOMA is an architect and urbanist who has been in practice since 1980. He has worked to disseminate principles and techniques of traditional town planning in all five continents, by sharing research, lecturing, mentorship, and working on projects. He has been principal designer of new towns and cities, urban regeneration, neighborhood revitalization, academic campuses, and infill densification projects.

A G Krishna Menon
Architect, Urban Planner, Conservation Consultant and Academic based in New Delhi

Presented by Robin Prater and Martin Lutyens


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