Restrained Harmony: Edwin Lutyens's Creation at Nashdom.

Katy Simmons: “Nashdom, Our Home”

Jun Huang: “Living With Light”

Host & Moderator: Martin Lutyens & Robin Prater

Nashdom, designed in 1905 for the Prince and Princess Dogorouki as a place for entertaining, has shown great versatility over its lifetime — at one time serving as a monastery and now as private residences for a new group of owners. This webinar looks at the rich history of Nashdom and at the lessons its design still holds for architects today on proportion and massing, adaptation to site, and the effect of light within a building.



Jun Huang

Jun is the design partner of Wei Yang & Partners, a UK urban planning firm known for creative thinking and placemaking, in particular their 21st Century Garden City theory. Prior to this, he was a director of a leading global architects where he led significant projects internationally. He serves on professional juries and expert panels, and promotes best practice through conferences, lectures and publications. Jun considers architecture, landscape, urban planning and design as a whole; the design of buildings and spaces as an entity. Influenced by his upbring (traditional arts and literature), childhood passion (aeroplane design) and unique experiences, he adopts a holistic approach and focuses on building a harmonious dialogue between old and new, light and shadow, complexity and simplicity, man and nature. Trained as a modernist, he also has a passion for heritage, traditional architecture and historic environments.

Katy Simmons

Katy Simmons first came to Nashdom as a student, when a friend became a novice in the Anglican Benedictine Community, housed in what was then known as Nashdom Abbey. After that, Katy went on to study and work as a teacher and academic in the USA, Australia and the UK, most recently at the Open University. But Nashdom remained in her life and she continued to bring friends to look at the building. By 1995 when the monks had moved elsewhere and developers started work on turning Nashdom into apartments, Katy and her husband Daryl Williams , now Professor of Particle Technology at Imperial College in London, decided to come and look more closely and made the spontaneous decision to make Nashdom their home. It was several years before the developers completed the project and Katy and Daryl were able to move in. But 24 years later, they are still here, enjoying contacts with visitors who are drawn to the rich architectural history of the building and its past residents.


Presented by Martin Lutyens and Robin Prater
Q & A Marcos Lutyens

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