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Adam, Robert
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Adam, Robert (1728–92). Scottish architect who, with his brothers John (1721–92) and James (1730–94), trained in the office of their father William Adam (1689–1748), the leading architect of his day in Scotland. After a spell at Edinburgh University, and a grand tour, Robert Adam started his architectural practice in London in 1758 and soon developed a light and decorative style inspired by his travels in Greece and Italy. His interiors combine domes, columned screens, and apses with classically derived surface patterns in delicate colours. The unity of the ‘Adam style’ can be seen in Kedleston (1760–1), Syon (1760–9), Osterley (1761–80), or
Kenwood (1767–9), with their elegant plasterwork, furnishings, and fabrics. Robert Adam's finest civic work was in Edinburgh, notably Charlotte Square (1791–1807), the
Register House (1774–92), and the first stage of the university (1789–93). To this later period belong such buildings as Seton (1790–1) and Culzean (1777–92), both in the castle style, which reflect Robert Adam's interest in the Picturesque. In 1773 there appeared the first engraved volume of the
Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam.
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The drawings of Robert Adam and his office. (British architect)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...office of the British architect Robert Adam is unique by any standard since...see Pl. II). [CHART OMITTED] Robert Adam was a better draftsman than his...in Edinburgh, Scotland.(2) Robert Adam's time in Rome between 1755 and...
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Picture perfect: this survey of Robert Adam's houses offers new insights into buildings that might have been designed for photography.(The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 9/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; The Country Houses of Robert Adam fom the Archives of Country Life...9781905400560 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Robert Adam is an architect who lends himself...volume monograph, The Works of Robert and James Adam. Only Sir Edwin Lutyens among...
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Beyond the needle's eye: Robert Adam's Huntwick Lodge at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire: a newly discovered drawing by Robert Adam for Nostell Priory's Huntwick Lodge transforms our view of this overlooked element in the house's landscape setting. As Gareth J.L. Williams explains, the building is unique in Adam's work for its use of a 17th-century vernacular style, and may even have been designed to appear partly ruined.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...local media coverage ensured that Robert Adam's then ruinous pyramidal Obelisk...of a pen, ink and wash drawing by Adam of a second estate lodge (Fig...election of 1774, and his choice of Robert Adam as his architect (he replaced James...
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Robert Adam's World of Details; At Octagon, Remarkable Visions of the 18th-Century Master Architect
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/21/1987; ; 700+ words
; Robert Adam, the 18th-century English architect...than he's generally given credit for, Adam designed the whole building from ground...this is in evidence in the exhibition "Robert Adam and Kedleston: The Making of a Neo-Classical...
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The Shaper of Things to Come; At the Octagon, Robert Adam's Original Drawings
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/25/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...18th-century British architect Robert Adam could hardly find a better home...talented friends and employees -- "Robert Adam, the Creative Mind: from the...the work of "the Adam office." Robert Adam as a young man abroad was not fooling...
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Bob the original builder; Sir John Soane's Museum celebrates the groundbreaking work of Robert Adam, Britain's first celebrity architect,.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 7/2/2003; ; 700+ words
; Byline: JANE BARRY ROBERT Adam was Britain's first celebrity architect...The exhibition focuses on what Robert Adam brought back from Italy and hoped to...Heroic Antiquity and the Architecture of Robert Adam is at Sir
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Reinventing Culzean: between 1973 and 1983 the National Trust for Scotland made great changes to the interiors of Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, in order to emphasise the work by Robert Adam. Ian Gow, the Trust's curator, explains why many of those alterations are now being revised.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...s magisterial survey of Adam's oeuvre in The Architecture of Robert and James Adam, published in 1922, that...The Trust's architect, Robert Hurd, itched to repaint...the Round Drawing Room in Adam's original colours but...
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The Robert Adam rooms in Philadelphia and New York City.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...eminent Scottish-born architect Robert Adam and begun in 1761 for John Stuart...Shelburne, who was displeased by the Adam brothers' recent scheme for the...in London and later dispensed with Robert Adam's services altogether, sought...
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Take a chair: for his latest exhibition, Hugh Buchanan has depicted furniture by Robert Adam at Osterley and Syon. Eileen Harris examines the remarkable sympathy between architect and artist.
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...set in the drawing-rooms of two Robert Adam houses, Osterley and Syon, is...This penchant he shares with Robert Adam, who believed that 'the more...the better. 'Hugh Buchanan and Robert Adam' is at the Francis Kyle Gallery...
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Summer fare: Edinburgh.(FARTHER afield)(Robert Adam exhibition)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 7/1/2009; ; 615 words
; Robert Adam's inner world goes on public display...OMITTED] The more than thirty watercolors by Adam on view are accompanied by drawings by...offer up a cooling tonic to summers heat. Robert Adam's Landscape Fantasies: Watercolors and...
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Robert Adam
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robert Adam , 1728-92, and James Adam, 1730...James serving chiefly as his assistant. Robert Adam designed his buildings to achieve the...1768, when he was succeeded by James. Robert Adam was buried in Westminster Abbey. Bibliography...
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Robert and James Adam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert and James Adam The British architects Robert (1728...ancient Roman and Renaissance motifs. Robert Adam was born on July 3, 1728, at Kirkcaldy...Architecture and Furniture The work of Robert Adam falls roughly into three phases of stylistic...
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Adam, Robert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Adam, Robert (1728–92). One of the...The second surviving son of William Adam , he matriculated at Edinburgh University...volume of the Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam appeared, in which the brothers staked...
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Adam, John
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...eldest son of William Adam , he became Master...took his brother Robert into partnership...identifiable as by John and Robert were illustrated...x2013;6), the Adam family mausoleum...brothers James and Robert. When the Adelphi...family seat at Blair Adam to stave off bankruptcy...
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Adam, James
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...interior designer, as The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam (1773–1822) proves. Although, by the time he returned to England, his brother Robert Adam had established the vocabulary of the ‘...
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