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Robert Adam. Robert Adam was a leader of the first phase of the classical revival in England and Scotland from around 1760 until his death.[2] He influenced the development of Western architecture, both in Europe and in North America.

Robert Adam

Adam designed interiors and fittings as well as houses.[3] Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Royal High School (1578-1777) on site of Blackfriars Monastery, Edinburgh. On his recovery from illness in 1746, he joined his elder brother John as apprentice to his father. Architectural practice in Edinburgh[edit] Robert Adam. Robert Adam - Scottish Enlightenment. Find us on Privacy and cookies Scotlands History\|Scottish Enlightenment.

Robert Adam - Scottish Enlightenment

Robert Adam biography. Bowood House, Wiltshire The name of Robert Adam may not be a household word (at least not outside the UK), but if you want to visit stately homes throughout Britain you will inevitably and repeatedly meet up with it.

Robert Adam biography

So I've chosen to include a page in this section of British History to outline the career of this remarkable Scotsman who had so much influence on Georgian art and architecture on both sides of the England/Scotland border. Robert Adam.pdf. Scotland's Robert Adam. Robert Adam (1728-1792) Robert Adam. An important Scottish-born architect, gratuitously included on these pages as he was 18th Century rather than Victorian.

He was born in Kirkaldy, son of the Edinburgh architect William Adam. Robert Adam studied at Edinburgh University, and then set off on the Grand Tour in 1754, travelling through France and Italy, and returning after 4 years well versed in classical and Italian Renaissance architecture. His three brothers also worked in the architectural profession, and James and William Adam joined Robert Adam in his London-based family practice, set up in 1758 (the eldest brother, John Adam, like his father, was a Palladian architect and was based in Scotland). Robert Adam's own work was mainly Classical, in a lighter style than the Palladians, but his wide studies from his travels left him with a large ouvre of classical variants to draw from, and he used what he felt suited each building.

Adelphi Terrace. Top of page Architecture pages // Full list of artists Home. Category:Robert Adam buildings. The Architecture of Robert Adam. Robert Adam is recognised internationally as a great architectural genius.

The Architecture of Robert Adam

He is certainly Scotland's greatest architect, but his influence has extended far beyond these shores and beyond his own generation. This site brings together a growing body of digitised information about Adam, including photographs, scans of original drawings and computer reconstructions. It includes essays that follow themes in Adam's work, as well as a growing number of studies of individual building. The studies are of buildings that were designed and built during Adam's lifetime, buildings that were constructed but which were in the process or subsequently modified, buildings that are now destroyed or in ruins, and designs for buildings that only ever existed on paper. Many of the unbuilt and destroyed designs by Adam are largely unknown, but they are none-the-less great works of architecture which computer visualisation techniques allow us now to appreciate more fully. Robert Adam - Edinburgh University.

Robert Adam - Church - Charlotte Square Edinburgh. Robert Adam and the Edinburgh Bridewell - Home. Edinburgh Bridewell - Linking to the City. This undated drawing (Fig1.) by Robert Adam, held at the Sir John Soane's Museum, is for gates for the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Bridewell - Linking to the City

The Palace has three gates, one opposite the bottom of Canongate, the other two (more or less mirrors of each other) from Queens Drive (leading to Holyrood Park) to the South and Abbeyhill to the North. The upper design in the drawing may have been intended for the Canongate entrance, and the lower for the other mirrored pair. It is very tempting to speculate that this drawing is contemporary with the castellated designs by Adam for the Bridewell that was built on Calton Hill and the sketch design for a fortified bridge that was proposed to link Princes Street to Calton Hill, mentioned below. Robert Adam - Leith Street Edinburgh. To anybody who knows Leith Street as it is today, with the walls of the St James’ Shopping Centre lowering down into a traffic-laden canyon, it seems almost incredible that it was along the west side of this, on part of the site now occupied by the St James’ Centre, that in 1785 Edinburgh almost acquired a magnificent terrace of ten houses designed by Robert Adam.

Robert Adam - Leith Street Edinburgh

At a formal ceremony on 27th June 1774, a foundation stone was laid for what was to be the first purpose-designed record repository in Britain. Register House was to stand on Princes’ Street, opposite the end of the newly-finished North Bridge. The search for an appropriate site for this new building had been going on for some time before the City Council offered the Trustees this prime location as part of their campaign to encourage the development of the Edinburgh New Town.

Robert Adam - Viaduct across the Low Calton. Robert Adam - South Bridge Scheme Edinburgh. Robert Adam Register House Edinburgh. Robert Adam - Charlotte Square Edinburgh. National Register of Archives. Robert Adam. In the south transept of Westminster Abbey is the grave of the celebrated Scottish architect Robert Adam.

Robert Adam

The stone was re-cut in 1974 and reads: ROBERT ADAM Esquire, ARCHITECT born at Kirkaldie 3rd July 1728 died in London 3rd March 1792 James Macpherson, the Scottish poet, and Sir William Chambers, architect, are buried either side of him. The sculptor Joseph Nollekens designed a monument for Adam but this was never erected. Robert was the second son of William Adam (d.1748), architect, and his wife Mary (Robertson). Six monuments in the Abbey were designed by him - to Elizabeth, Duchess of Northumberland, Roger Townshend, John Andre, James Thomson, Mary Hope and William Dalrymple.

He died unmarried in London and left his effects to his sisters Elizabeth and Margaret. A photograph of the gravestone can be purchased from Westminster Abbey Library. Robert Adam. Robert Adam's Landscape Fantasies − Exhibitions − What's On. 'Romantic Castle', Robert Adam. 'A Chasm, with Figures', Robert Adam. 'Composition: River in a Gorge', Robert Adam. The Adams.