Lutyens Memorial Volume 3: Public Buildings & Memorials Panel Discussion

with Catesby Leigh, Sam Roche, & Charles D. Warren

To mark the publication of the third and final volume of the Lutyens Memorial Volumes, Sam Roche, Catesby Leigh, and Charles Warren explore the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens in a discussion focused on his rejuvenation of architectural traditions. Through an examination of particular buildings and with the aid of drawings and photographs, the panelists explore Lutyens’s complex compositions of mass, space and detail, endeavoring to enrich our understanding of the work and its place in the long sweep of classical architecture.

The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: Public Buildings and Memorials showcases Lutyens’ detailed plans and elevations for the greatest examples of his townhouse renovations, memorials and public buildings, including the Cenotaph at Westminster, the Thiepval Memorial, and the colossal Midland Bank building in Manchester.

These reissues are once again bringing to the world’s attention not just the professionalism of a great architect, but also the loving care with which he set down the minutiae of his visions. They are among the few books in existence illustrated with his working drawings, as well as pristine photos of the finished masterpieces themselves. This volume is a beautiful tribute to a monumental figure in the history of modern architecture.

All three volumes are currently available for purchase on the ICAA website.

1. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: The Country Houses
2. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: Gardens, Delhi, Washington
3. The Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens: Public Buildings and Memorials

Catesby Leigh writes about public art and architecture, urbanism and fine art, with a particular focus on the nature of monumentality in the visual arts. He is a co-founder and past chair (2002-2008) of the National Civic Art Society, which advocates the classical tradition in design, with an emphasis on improving the federal government’s impact on the nation’s public realm, especially in the nation’s capital.

Born and raised in Washington, Leigh spent most of the 1980’s as South America correspondent for the Atlanta-based Cox Newspapers chain. Visiting many cities and towns in the region, he grew increasingly interested in traditional architectural environments, and was struck by their modernist counterparts’ failure to achieve comparable levels of physical or visual amenity.

Leigh’s first architecture articles appeared in 1991, and since then he has contributed critical commentary on institutional buildings, national memorials, the New Urbanism and fine art to publications including City Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, Modern Age, National Review, the Wall Street Journal and the Weekly Standard. His critical essay, Anti-Monument: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Its Legacy (2017), is available in a Kindle edition.

Sam Roche is an architect and partner with Stephenson Roche Partners since 2017, where he's helped design new construction and renovations, of houses, apartments, and hotels, with an interest to preserve and enhance historic character.

He has written on urban planning in the book Plans of Chicago (2009), for a public process to redesign the Eisenhower Memorial in The Washington Post and The Wall StreetJournal, and on the classical origins of Louis Kahn's modernist architecture in The Classicist No. 9. He studied architecture and art history at Princeton and Yale universities and at the ICAA's Beaux-Arts Atelier, and he has taught classical-design studios for the University of Miami and Benedictine College. He is a native of Savannah, Georgia.

Charles D. Warren established his architectural practice in 1987. The firm has completed buildings, furniture, and gardens in diverse locations, which have been featured in books and periodicals. He is a graduate of Skidmore College and Columbia University. In 1987, Warren was the Muschenheim Fellow at the University of Michigan where he was Visiting Assistant Professor for three years. In 1990-91 he was Town Architect in Seaside, Florida, and in 2019 he was awarded the Seaside Prize. Warren writes books and essays about architecture and its history. These include introductions to The Architecture of Charles A. Platt and to John Nolen’s classic, New Towns for Old. He co-authored the two-volume monograph, Carrère & Hastings Architects, and co-edited Sylvan Cemetery. In 2017 he was guest editor of Classicist 14. As a former trustee of the Library of American Landscape History, and a founder and past- president of the Committee to Save the New York Public Library, he has worked to foster the appreciation and preservation of American landscapes and landmarks.

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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