The Monumental Twenties: Rediscovering British Architecture of the 1920s

A day of lectures will draw on expert knowledge to look at the neglected classical and monumental architecture of the 1920s in Britain.

Of all the decades of architecture since 1914, we talk least about the 1920s. To redress this imbalance, a day of lectures will draw on expert knowledge to look at the neglected classical and monumental architecture of the 1920s in Britain. How did the legacy of the Edwardians such as Lutyens develop after the Great War? How did classicism in Britain relate to other countries, and how do we understand and assess these alternatives to modernism? Speakers include Gavin Stamp and Alan Powers, providing different overviews of the period, with specialised lectures from David Walker on Burnet and Tait, Joseph Sharples on Liverpool and C H Reilly, Elain Harwood on Wembley, Brian Hanson on Charles Holden, Simon Pepper and Peter Richmond on monumental flats, and Peyton Skipwith on architectural sculpture. On Sunday, 23 November, there will be a coach tour giving special attention to the work of Burnet and Tait in London, and showing how this firm, about whom no substantial book yet exists, managed to move between the most creative classicism of the period after 1900 and various versions of modernism.

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