Sir Edwin Lutyens

Clive Aslet is an award-winning writer and visiting professor of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. In 2019, together with the photographer Dylan Thomas, he founded Triglyph Books whose first title was their joint book Old Homes, New Life: The resurgence of the British country house. Clive has published more than 30 books on architecture and British culture, beginning with The Last Country Houses for Yale University Press in 1982. This was republished by Frances Lincoln as The Edwardian Country House in 2012. In 1990, Yale also published his book The American Country House, a study of a comparable phenomenon to the Edwardian country house which arose in the United States during the Gilded Age. He returned to Yale for The Story of the Country House published in 2021. Other of Clive’s titles include Landmarks of Britain (Holder & Stoughton, 2005) and War Memorial (Penguin, 2013). For many years Clive was the editor of the magazine Country Life and he is now the chairman on the Lutyens Trust. Married with three children, Clive lives in London and Ramsgate, England.