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Robert Adam (architect, born 1948)
British architect (born 1948)
Robert AdamFRIAS (born 1948) is a Driehaus Architecture Prize winning British architect, urban designer and author, known for championing classical and traditional styles. Adam is a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde and Design Council Expert.[2][3][4][6][7][1]
His career was the subject of Richard John's Robert Adam and the Search for a Modern Classicism, a survey of Adam's projects with a foreword by Charles, Prince of Wales.[8][9]
Education and early career
Adam attended the University of Westminster. In 1973, he won the British School at Rome's Rome Prize in Architecture.[1]
Adam practiced as an architect, working part-time as a freelance architectural journalist until 1977, when he became partner at a firm in Winchester. In 1992, he founded Robert Adam Architects there.[10][1][3]
In 2021, he was awarded Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by Oxford Brookes
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Robert Adam (1728 – 92) was one of the most important British architects working in the Neoclassical style – a movement in the decorative and visual arts that drew inspiration from the 'classical' art and culture of Ancient Greece and Rome.
Born in Kirkaldy, Scotland, Robert Adam was the son of the established architect William Adam (1689 – 1748), and followed him into the family practice. In 1754 he embarked on a Grand Tour, spending five years in France and Italy visiting classical sites and studying architecture under the French draughtsman Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Italian artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi. On his return, Adam established his own practice in London with his brother James. Although classical architecture was already becoming popular, Adam developed a distinctive and highly individual style which was applied to all elements of interior decoration, from ceilings, walls and floors to furniture, silver and ceramics. The 'Adam Style', as it became known, was enormously popular and had a lasting influence on British architecture and interior design.
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ADAM, Robert (1728-92), of Dowhill, Kinross.
Family and Education
b. 3 July 1728, 2nd s. of William Adam of Maryburgh, Kinross, architect and master mason to the Board of Ordnance in Scotland, by Mary, da. of William Robertson of Gladney, Fife; uncle of William Adam. educ.Kirkcaldy; Edinburgh h.s.; Edinburgh Univ. 1743, unm. suc. to the ruined castle of Dowhill on d. of fa. 1748.
Offices Held
Jt. architect to Board of Works 1762-8.
Biography
Adam’s father, having made a fortune in private practice and by Ordnance contracts, purchased a 4,000 acre estate in Kinross and an interest in the Pinkie coalfield. Robert, the most brilliant of four brothers, all architects, was a handsome, high-spirited, ambitious young man, the close friend of his cousin William Robertson, David Hume, John Home, Gilbert Elliot, and other Edinburgh literati.1 From 1754 to 1757 he travelled widely in Italy,2 made a detailed study of Diocletian’s palace at Spalato (Split) in Dalmatia, and on his return in January 1758 set up in practice in London.
Introduced to Bute by John Home in May 1758,
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