Title & Author:

Lutyens : The Metaphoric Castle / [presented by] Peter Inskip.

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1981.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Peter Inskip -- Top: Fulbrook House, Surrey, 1897. Bottom: Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, 1938 -- Garden At Hestercombe House, Somerset, 1904 -- Heathcote, Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1906 -- Heathcote, Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1906. Main Entrance -- Marshcourt, Near Stockbridge, Hampshire, 1901 -- 1904 -- Marshcourt, Near Stockbridge, Hampshire, 1901 -- 1904. South Side -- Marshcourt, Near Stockbridge, Hampshire, 1901 -- 1904. Garden -- Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Isle, Northumberland. 1903 -- Top: Castle Drogo, 1910 -- 1930. Bottom: Garden At Drewsteignton, Devon -- Lambay Castle, Co. Dublin, Eire, 1905. Entrance Gate -- Lambay Castle, Co. Dublin, Eire, 1905. Path From Gate To House -- Lambay Castle, Co. Dublin, Eire, 1905. Datum Walls -- Grey Walls, Gullane, East Lothian, 1900 -- Nashdom, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, 1905 -- 1909 -- Nashdom, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, 1905 -- 1909. Garden -- Gledstone Hall, Yorkshire, 1922 -- 1925 -- Ednaston, Derbyshire, 1912 -- 1913 -- Ednaston, Derbyshire, 1912 -- 1913. North Elevation -- Great Dixter, Northiam, Sussex, 1910 -- Heathcote, Ilkley, Yorkshire, 1906. Detail -- Folly Farm, Sulhampstead, Berkshire, 1901 -- Homewood, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, 1901 -- Homewood, Knebwortth, Herts., 1901. Garden Side.

Summary:

Sir Edwin Lutyens was the last great architect of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain. His vast output of over 300 buildings and projects showed a continuing devotion to traditional techniques of construction and borrowing from the past. There has recently been a revival of interest in his work, leading to an Arts Council Lutyens exhibition in autumn 1981 at London's Hayward Art Gallery. To coincide with this, we published three talks on Lutyens covering the span of his work. They are all by members of the organising committee of the exhibition. Peter Inskip examines the houses of 1900 to 1914. He has taught architecture at several British universities. In his talk, he advances the view that Lutyens' houses are indeed metaphoric castles that are related to the site by the extension of the geometry of the house out to the garden, or by the treatment of garden elements as fictive fortifications to protect the houses against hostile surroundings.

Subject:

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Inskip, Peter, narrator.