Reviews

Today's more inclusive view of the building art makes it easier to contend that although Luytens was by no means a Modernist, he was most definitely a modern architect, and a very great one at that. While he largely disdained innovative construction methods, he responded to the new needs of the twentieth century with restless imagination, as demonstrated by his up-to-date corporate headquarters, admirable worker's housing, and incomparable memorials to Britain's victims of unprecedented industrialized combat, as the centennial of World War I reminds us.--Martin Filler "The New York Review of Books"