Robert Adam

Robert Adam, FRSA ( born July 3, 1728 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, † March 3, 1792 in London) was a Scottish architect, interior decorator, furniture designer and father of the British Classicism and the main representative of the Adam style.

Life

Robert Adam was the son of the leading Scottish architect William Adam (1689-1748) was born. From 1754 to 1758 he studied ancient monuments in Italy ( esp. imperial period ), and 1757 to the Diocletian Palace in Split, about which he published in 1764 a book.

He became friends with Giovanni Battista Piranesi and took the architectural draftsman Charles Louis Clérisseau in his service. He studied and used the publications of Robert Wood on Baalbek and Palmyra. Hence the merger was ancient with English building traditions. After Palladianistengeneration to Campbell and Burlington, he took it right back to ancient times. From 1758 he was in London. He built the University of Edinburgh and a number of houses in London, and especially mansions such as Saltram House in Plympton near Plymouth.

Around 1770, commissioned 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope him to design a sofa that offers an upright seating and still largest convenience. This Chesterfield chairs are still widely used today.

Nikolaus Pevsner wrote of him: " His work stands between a picturesque classicism and a classically restrained Gothic Revival His works have the attitude casual decency, unpedantischer erudition and understated prosperity, just the sophisticated world of his clients because he felt that it is neither civilized nor. . be wise to break existing traditions, he created a neo-classical style, the graceful and serene nature was more elegant than that of the followers of the Palladian style which preceded it, or the followers of the Greek Revival, which followed him. "

In John Soane's museum there are 8000 large-format drawings by him. 1773-79 he published his buildings in a folio work.

Gallery

Luton Hoo

Kedleston Hall

Paxton House

Saltram House

Important buildings

  • Apsley House, London ( 1778)
  • Bowood House, Wiltshire
  • Charlotte Square ( north side), Edinburgh ( 1791)
  • Edinburgh University Old College
  • Kedleston Hall, Derby (1759-1765)
  • Kenwood House, Hampstead, London ( 1768)
  • Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire (1766-1770)
  • Mistley Towers
  • Osterley Park, London (1761-1780)
  • Paxton House, Berwick -upon- Tweed ( 1758)
  • Pulteney Bridge, Bath ( 1770)
  • Saltram House, Plympton near Plymouth
  • Syon House Interior Design, Brentford (1762-1769)
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