in place of the arched and colonnaded verandas of his earlier buildings represents the adaptation of the International Style of architecture whereas the materials used draw from the Anglo-Indian architecture of the preceding decades. George was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours of 1960. Walter Sykes George died in Delhi on 7 January 1962. Style and legacy Walter George's work marked Indian architecture's move towards modernism. George himself maintained that his architectural style represented nothing but "pure form, as dictated by the material". His buildings with their use of exposed red bricks were innovative and a shift away from the pink sandstone used extensively in Lutyens' Delhi and was low-cost in comparison to the buildings of Lutyens and Baker. References External links The Lutyens Trust 1881 births 1962 deaths British neoclassical architects Alumni of the Royal College of Art British people in colonial India English emigrants to India History of Delhi Fellows of the Royal Institute of British Architects 20th-century English architects