The Lutyens Memorial Volumes: Genesis and History, with Dr. David Frazer Lewis

Oxford professor Dr. David Frazer Lewis explains the history and importance of the Lutyens Memorial Volumes, and why they are being reprinted for a new generation of architects and enthusiasts.
The Lutyens Memorial Volumes form the definitive collection of the architect’s plans, elevations and working drawings. Always intended as a tool for designers, they have been studied by architects as wide-ranging as Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Venturi, Louis Kahn, and Allan Greenberg.
After the series fell out of print, the volumes became hard to find, but now they have been re-published for a new generation who wish to study Lutyens’ work and influence. The first two volumes are now available at classicist.org/books, and the third volume will be released in Spring 2024.
On May 31, 2023, the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art partnered with Lutyens Trust America to present a lecture by David Frazer Lewis, Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oxford. His talk explores the seldom-told story of the genesis of the Memorial Volumes, amidst the austerity, rationing, and ascendant modernism of postwar Britain. The presentation traces the Volumes' influence in Britain and the United States through the course of the twentieth century, and the way that their reprinting in the 1980s and now in the 2020s, has allowed Lutyens to remain an inspiration to many architects today.
This program is presented by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA), a nonprofit educational organization committed to promoting and preserving the practice, understanding, and appreciation of classical design. To see more educational videos and courses like this one, or if you are interested in attending our classes or becoming a member, visit www.classicist.org .
About the Speaker:
Dr. David Frazer Lewis is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He has published on a wide range of topics in 19th and 20th century architecture, including Gothic Revival cathedrals in the United States, British architecture of the 1920s, and the work of Giles Gilbert Scott. His book on A.W.N. Pugin was published by Historic England in 2021.
Sponsors:
The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art is pleased to thank the following sponsors of the Lutyens Memorial Series:
The current and former Chairs of the National Board of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art:
Russell Windham (2017-present)
Mark Ferguson (2014-2016)
Peter Pennoyer (2009-2014)
Anne Fairfax (2006-2009)
Gil Schafer III (1999-2006)
And our supporters:
Anthony “Ankie” Barnes
Curtis & Windham Architects
Matthew Enquist
Ferguson & Shamamian Architects
Jared D. Goss
Kirk Henckels
Kligerman Architecture & Design
Karen and Liam Krehbiel
Anne Kriken Mann
John P. Margolis, AIA
Mark Hampton LLC
Oliver Cope Architect, LLC
Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP
Suzanne R. Santry
Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker Architects LLC
Seth J. Weine
Bunny Williams
Paul Brant Williger
Thank you to our generous sponsors:
Lead Annual Public Programs Sponsor: RINCK
Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Dell Mitchell Architects
Seasonal Public Programs Sponsor: Hyde Park Mouldings

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