Webinars

Etaples, located near the main hospitals of the British Expeditionary Forces, is the largest IWGC cemetery in France with over 11,500 graves. The central terrace of the memorial designed by Lutyens is sited to allow the visitor to comprehend the scale of the sacrifice. Jon and Lynelle share stories not only of the architecture and construction, but also of the soldiers and nurses buried at Etaples.

The Hayward Gallery Lutyens Exhibition played a pivotal role in re-igniting interest in the architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Using photographs and memories, the designer of the exhibition, Piers Gough walks us through the galleries and allows a glimpse into the past. The exhibition led to the formation of the Lutyens Trust in 1984 and, many years later, to the Lutyens Trust America.

Architect: Edwin Lutyens

Paul Knight first became hooked on the architectural beauty and mathematical rigor of Lutyens’s design work during a trip to India. During his travels as our Lutyens Traveling Fellowship recipient, he was able to expand upon this first introduction to Lutyens to further study the geometries underlying the designs at a number of Lutyens sites. This webinar focuses on Rashtrapati Bhavan, Lambay, the Irish National War Memorial, and Castle Drogo.

Architect: Edwin Lutyens

An exploration of the personal and professional similarities and contrasts of these two talented and impactful architects.

The memorials and cemeteries of the Western Front of the First World War span a vast array of sizes and types. This webinar looks at some of the less well-known but still important sites created by the Imperial War Graves Commission, with particular emphasis on those by Lutyens.

Edwin Lutyens’s early exercises in sketching continued to influence and inform his later architectural work. This webinar explores that influence on his perception of a design as a three-dimensional work, his process of adding and subtracting or carving and modeling, and his use of proportion.

A look at the renown gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan as well as their relationship to Lutyens’s plan for New Delhi and to previous historic gardens in India.

Lutyens’s entrance lodges provide the first introduction to a home and serve a variety of purposes. As with most things designed by Lutyens, we found that the more we looked at the lodges, the more there was to discover.

The names Runnymede, King John, and Magna Carta are forever entwined in history. This webinar explores the historic signing and how it came to be commemorated at Runnymede through the combination of an America woman, Cara Leland Rogers (Lady Fairhaven), Sir Edwin Lutyens, and the National Trust. Associated with the same site today is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, a Jamestown Oak, and a Magna Carta Memorial given by the American Bar Association. For Lutyens’s fans, the nearby Bell Weir Bridge was designed by by the architect and constructed after his death.