Webinars

Perhaps an unexpected pairing, Biltmore and Castle Drogo share many common bonds — both built by the premier architect of the day in their respective countries, both built to secure the family position in society, both built in the midst of acres of land overlooking beautiful countryside — yet both so different architecturally as to provide valuable insights in their contrast.

Four Lutyens’s houses – Tigbourne Court, Homewood, Middlefield, and Gledstone Hall — serve as a starting point for a discussion of common elements within Lutyens’s design of exterior elevations.

In January of 1908, Edward Hudson telegraphed Edwin Lutyens to let him know that he had gotten Lindisfarne Castle. The two then proceeded to transform Lindisfarne for use as a holiday home. Their collaboration drew notice from the Prince and Princess of Wales (future King George and Queen Mary), who visited in July, 1908. Today Lindisfarne is owned by the U.K. National Trust.

Katy Simmons: “Nashdom, Our Home”

Jun Huang: “Living With Light”

St. Jude-on-the-Hill and the Free Church are part of the ensemble of buildings designed by Edwin Lutyens to complete his vision for the Central Square of the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Lutyens’s plan for the formal center of the development placed three linked squares around the Central Square, with each linked square anchored by a major public building. St Jude, on the South Square, faces the Free Church, on the North Square, with the Institute anchoring the east side.

The Salutation is one of Lutyens’s most masterful essays into Neo-Georgian design. Located in Sandwich, Kent, the seemingly simple and straightforward design holds a myriad of surprises and intricacies.

Our speakers today represent the international interest evoked by the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Swapna Liddle is an author and historian with a specialization in the history of Delhi. Grant Marani is an architect and partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Although Lutyens designed many buildings for New Delhi, this webinar will focus primarily on Lutyens’s work at Rashtrapati Bhavan (President’s House, formerly Viceroy’s House).

In 1912, Edwin Lutyens was asked to join what became the Delhi Planning Commision, charged with advising on the siting and layout of a new capital for India. Although Lutyens went on to design a number of the buildings in New Delhi, notably Rashtrapati Bhavan, this webinar focuses on the theories and concepts of the planning for the new city. Martin Lutyens discusses the work at New Delhi within the context of Edwin Lutyens’s overall body of work. Dhiru Thadani looks at the connectivity between the planning of New Delhi and the layouts of other major capitals, such as Paris and Washington, D.C. Krishna Menon shares his insights into how the flexibility of Lutyens’s plan for New Delhi allowed the city to transition into the modern Republican city that it is today.

Lambay Castle is the ancestral home of the Revelstokes, Maude & Cecil Baring, and is still protected by their family today, four generations later. The original Old Fort was built in the late 15th/early 16th century. The Lutyens Guest Wing and renovations were added in 1908-1910. Referred to as one of Lutyens’s finest examples of domestic architecture, the two sections of Lambay Castle complement each other perfectly and are seamlessly, almost invisibly, connected by a long central corridor that runs beneath the East Terrace.