contemporary British architect Sir Robert Lorimer (1931) and The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens, which historian David Watkin rated "the finest architectural biography" in English. Lutyens' first big London office building was the Country Life Building (1904) in Covent Garden, commissioned by the magazine's editor, Edward Hudson. With A.S.G. Butler and George Stewart Hussey contributed to the definitive three-volume Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens (1950), the opening shot in the ongoing reappraisal of Lutyen's buildings. Nevertheless, Hussey's Country Life articles on contemporary houses are often overlooked. In the next generation, Hussey's example influenced John Cornforth, with whom he co-wrote the later editions of Hussey's Guide to English Country Houses Open to the Public (first published by Hussey in 1951), and who wrote a series of Country Life articles in 1981 "Continuity and Progress: Christopher Hussey and Modern Architecture" (Country Life, vol. CLXIX, 22 October 1981, pp. 1366–68, etc.) To a lesser extent Hussey's example influenced Mark Girouard, whose Life in the English Country House (1979) took a new view, concerned with life downstairs as well as with architects and their patrons among the gentry. Books Hussey, Christopher and Tipping, H. Avray. In English Homes, Period IV, Volume II, The Work of Sir John Vanbrugh and his School, 1699–1736 (1927), Country Life, London. Hussey, Christopher. The picturesque: studies in a point of view (1927), G.P. Putnam's Sons, London and New York. Sources John Cornforth, 'Hussey, Christopher Edward Clive (1899–1970)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 External links The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The Dictionary of Art Historians English architecture writers Hussey, Christoppher E.C. English biographers Country Life (magazine) people 1899 births 1970 deaths People from Lamberhurst