Editing Edwin Lutyens (section)

== Recognition and legacy ==
[[File:Edwin Lutyens memorial.jpg|thumb|Memorial to Lutyens by [[Stephen Cox (sculptor)|Stephen Cox]] (2015)]]

Lutyens received the RIBA [[Royal Gold Medal]] in 1921, and the [[AIA Gold Medal|American Institute of Architects Gold Medal]] in 1925. In November 2015 the British government announced that all 44 of Lutyens's surviving First World War memorials in Britain{{NoteTag|43 in England, 1 in Wales}} had now been listed on the advice of [[Historic England]], and were therefore all protected by law. This involved the one remaining memorial—the [[Gerrards Cross Memorial Building]] in [[Buckinghamshire]]—being added to the list, plus a further fourteen having their statuses upgraded.<ref>{{cite web |title = National Collection of Lutyens' War Memorials Listed |url = http://historicengland.org.uk/news-and-features/news/lutyens-war-memorials |website=[[Historic England]] |date = 7 November 2015 |publisher=Historic England |access-date=9 November 2015 }}</ref> For the [[Imperial Brands|Imperial Tobacco Company]]'s First World War memorial, installed in 1921 at its Bedminster Head Office,<ref>'Imperial Tobacco Company's War Memorial' ''Western Daily Press'', 19 October 1921, p.3</ref> this protection arrived too late to prevent its destruction following the company's take-over in 1986 by [[Heidelberg Materials UK|Hanson Trust plc]].

The architectural critic [[Ian Nairn]] wrote of Lutyen's Surrey "masterpieces" in the 1971 ''Surrey'' volume of the [[Pevsner Architectural Guides|''Buildings of England'' series]], while noting that; "the genius and the charlatan were very close together in Lutyens".{{sfn|Nairn|Pevsner|Cherry|1971|p=70}} In the introduction to the catalogue for the 1981 Lutyens exhibition at the [[Hayward Gallery]], the architectural writer Colin Amery described Lutyens as "the builder of some of our finest country houses and gardens".{{sfn|Amery|Richardson|Stamp|1981|p=8}}

In 2015 a memorial to Lutyens by the sculptor [[Stephen Cox (sculptor)|Stephen Cox]] was erected in Apple Tree Yard, Mayfair, London, adjacent to the studio where Lutyens prepared the designs for New Delhi.<ref>{{cite web |last = Cox |first = Stephen |author-link = Stephen Cox (sculptor) |title=Apple Tree Yard Sculpture Honours Spirit of Lutyens |url = http://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/portfolio-item/apple-tree-yard-sculpture-honours-spirit-lutyens/ |website=The Lutyens Trust |access-date=10 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Hancock |first=Michaila |date=3 June 2015 |title=Eric Parry completes St James's Square office |url = https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/eric-parry-completes-st-jamess-square-office/8683365.article |magazine=[[Architects' Journal]] |location=London |access-date=10 May 2019 }}</ref>