Edwin Landseer Lutyens (1869-1944) is considered one of the greatest British architects of the first half of the 20th Century. Charles Hind, Chief Curator and H.J. Heinz Curator of Drawings at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), will talk about Lutyens’s domestic architecture and show, using illustrations drawn from RIBA’s extensive archive and images from the National Trust, how his work continues to inspire architects and patrons today on both sides of the Atlantic.
Though well known for his later memorials and public buildings, before 1914, a large part of Lutyens’s work was the building or remodeling of private homes and British country houses. Lutyens’s early work was characterized as adaptations of rural vernacular. His style grew out of the Arts and Crafts movement and was strongly influenced by his upbringing in rural Surrey, southwest of London. Stylistically Lutyens later moved to the full-blown classicism popular in the late Edwardian period, the most dramatic example of which is Heathcote, a suburban villa in Ilkley, Yorkshire, where he used variations on Renaissance architecture. But whichever style he adopted, Lutyens was deeply committed to developing and distilling its essence while making it suitable to the needs of his patrons, who required all the conveniences of modern life. He also integrated his houses with carefully considered gardens influenced by his partnership with Gertrude Jekyll, for whom he built Munstead Wood and who introduced him to most of his earliest patrons.
Previously, Charles Hind has worked in the British Library, in Sotheby’s British Watercolours Department and as architectural editor for Grove’s Dictionary of Art. He has lectured and published widely on British architectural history, particularly on Palladio and Palladian Design and curated numerous exhibitions, including Palladio and His Legacy: A Transatlantic Journey, which toured the USA and Canada in 2011-12. Apart from his responsibilities at the RIBA, Charles is also a Trustee of the Lutyens Trust and a Life Trustee of Lutyens’s last vernacular work, the house and gardens of Great Dixter, in Sussex.
This event is co-sponsored and hosted by the Royal Oak Foundation. Please note that registration for this lecture is through the Royal Oak Foundation website. ICAA members wishing to take advantage of a discounted registration fee may use the code 18SICAANY.Image: The Kitchen at Lindisfarne Castle, Northumberland. Photograph © National Trust Images, Andreas Von Einsiedel.
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