Webinars Effectively Spread the Word About the Work of Edwin Lutyens

By Robin Prater

The continuing interest in the legacy of Edwin Lutyens has provided us with many avenues to explore over the past year through our webinars, which run in parallel with the lecture series organised by our Lutyens Trust colleagues in the UK. What’s more, we seem to have barely scratched the surface of available topics.

We are most appreciative of everyone who has given their time and talents for these explorations of Lutyens’s work. Thank you to those of you who have watched the webinars and given us their positive feedback. We are gratified to discover that we have viewers in Australia, Bermuda, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, The Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, Spain as well as in the UK and US. Please continue to share your suggestions for future webinars with us.

The webinars are typically presented on the second Thursday of each month at 5pm UK time (noon US Eastern Time Zone). Portions of our previous webinars are posted on The Lutyens Trust America and The Lutyens Trust websites as well as on The Lutyens Trust America YouTube channel (see the links to
them below).

Here is a list of webinars held to date, along with the names of their panellists:

  • “Arts and Crafts Beginnings: The Story of Goddards” (Tom Kligerman, Michael Imber)
  • “The Life and Legacy of Sir Edwin Lutyens” (Robin Prater, Jane Ridley)
  • “3D-Modelling of Lutyens’s Proposed Liverpool Cathedral: The Greatest Building Never Built” (Nick Webb, Jeff Speakman)
  • “Lutyens and Jekyll: Architecture and the Garden Landscape” (Virginia Burt, Sarah Dickinson, Janice Parker, Judith Tankard)
  • “Lutyens and the British School at Rome” (Hugh Petter, Stephen J Milner)
  • “The Furniture and Lighting Designs of Sir Edwin Lutyens” (Candia Lutyens, Alan Powers)
  • “City Beautiful on the Rand: Lutyens in South Africa” (Anthony “Ankie” Barnes, Mervyn Miller)
  • “Encounters at Greywalls: Lutyens in Scotland” (Paul Whalen, Douglas Wright, Robin Prater, Ros Weaver)
  • “Lutyens: Speaking to the 21st Century: The Relevance of Lutyens to Contemporary Design” (Peter Inskip, Kulapat Yantrasast)
  • “Lutyens and The Cenotaph: Architecture of Profound Geometry” (Clive Aslet, Jane Ridley)
  • “Lutyens’s Plans: Accommodation and Enrichment” (Oliver Cope, Stuart Martin)
  • “Gertrude Jekyll and the Garden at Upton Grey” (Rosamund Wallinger, Claire Greenslade)
  • “Lutyens at Lambay: Architecture and Arcadia” (David Averill, Millie Baring, Stuart Martin)
  • “Lutyens’s Plan for New Delhi” (AG Krishna Menon, Dhiru Thadani)
  • “Lutyens’s Architecture in New Delhi: Politics, Planning and Personality” (Swapna Liddle, Grant Marani)

The Lutyens Trust America: https://lutyenstrustamerica.com/about/webinars/
The Lutyens Trust America on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/
The Lutyens Trust: https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/about-lutyens/webinars/