Luytens the Great

Event – Thursday, March 14 - 6:00 pm

Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, OM, was one of the greatest of British architects known for imaginatively adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era. A boy genius, he began as an architect of lyrical country houses, before discovering the High Game of Classicism.  His was a dazzling career which produced, among numerous other works, two great symbols of the national spirit: the Cenotaph in Whitehall, the memorial that became the focus of Britain's grief after the First World War, and the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, a palace bigger than Versailles symbolising British rule in India.  This lecture will celebrate Lutyens's achievement on the 150^thanniversary of his birth and compare his place in architectural history to that of Wren, Vanbrugh, Adam and Soane.  Was Lutyens the greatest of all?  The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century." 

Clive Aslet is an award-winning architectural historian and journalist, acknowledged as a leading authority on Britain and its way of life.  Having joined County Life in 1977, he was Editor from 1993-2006 and still contributes to it.  In addition, he writes extensively for newspapers such as The Times, as well as broadcasting on radio and television.  Clive has published many non-fiction books, including The Last Country Houses and The American Country House, both for Yale University Press; The Last Country Houses was republished as The Edwardian Country House by Frances Lincoln.  His first novel, The Birdcage, was published by Cumulus (hardback, 2014) and Sandstone Press (paperback, 2016).  He is now working on a series of three novels set at the end of the First World War. 

$35 for members of sponsoring organizations  (ESU)
$25 for junior members (35 and under)
$45 for non-members/guests 

To RSVP/purchase tickets: Robin Prater at info@LutyensTrustAmerica.com or (770) 335-4678

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