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David Watkin considers classicism as an architectiure of imitation combined with invention in which the orders are timeless through their relation to the human body and through their ornament derived from plant forms.  He weaves a web of resonances linking past architects, Ictinus, Vitruvius, Bramante, Scamozzi, Schinkel, Hansen, Soane, Cockerell, McKim, Mead and White, with current architects, Krier, Porphyrios, Greenberg, Quinlan and Francis Terry, John Simpson, Robert Adam, George Saumarez Smith, and the brilliant classical sculptor, Alexander Stoddart.

The lecture is both historical and contemporary, for Professor Watkin draws on his personal association with many of the present day architects whose work he has defended in public planning enquiries, written about in books and articles, and whose careers he has also tried to promote by seeking new commissions.  The story involves a life long battle against British establishment which is Modernist in terms of both architecture and, ironically, of conservation.

Dr. David Watkin is Professor Emeritus of History of Architecture at Cambridge University.