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The Lutyens Trust: The work of Sir Edwin Lutyens and his contemporaries 1920-40 – Architecture – a three-dimensioned art
Day conference in the Catholic Chaplaincy, The Old Palace, Rose Place, St Aldate, Oxford OX1 1RD and Campion Hall
1 November, 9.00am-7.00pm
Speakers Dinner, Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall, Queen’s Lane, Oxford OX1 4AR
1 November, 7.30pm-10.30pm
Interwar Oxford Walking Tour, starting point Blackfriars Priory, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LY
2 November, 10.30am-1.00pm
Day Conference
Glossed over by many as notable only for marking the transition to Modernism, the restless and transitional years between the World Wars have too often been misrepresented. This study day seeks to show their rich reality and to correct this glib dismissal. It will touch on the many overlapping themes and contextual cross-currents at play over two decades of remarkable contrasts for architecture with Sir Edwin’s work always the point of reference…..
A session visiting the neighbouring Campion Hall, designed by Lutyens in 1936, will provide first-hand evidence of the great architect’s exceptional contribution to this period…..
The subjects the many experts have chosen to share give a taster of the breadth of design in this period of contradictions and, through patron, critic and architect, will unpack the diversity of thinking, compositions that were – and were not- responsive to the changing times…..
Speakers Dinner
To continue discussion and thank speakers, contributors and sponsors, we are providing an evening dinner. A three-course banquet, wine, expert company and all in the seventeenth century, Gothic surroundings of St Edmund Hall’s Old Dining Hall. A welcome opportunity to conclude a memorable day.
Interwar Oxford Walking Tour
For those staying around or those available on the morning of Sunday 2 November, we are offering a walking tour of key interwar masterpieces in Oxford. Starting in E Doran Webb’s Blackfriars Priory (1921-29), St Giles at 10.30am with coffee and introduction, the tour will include several sites, not least, Sir Herbert Baker’s Rhodes House (1926-28) and last about 2 hours, concluding by 1pm…..