Robert and James Adam
Author | : Joseph Rykwert |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Rykwert |
Publisher | : Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ariyuki Kondo |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1317322517 |
During the second half of the eighteenth century British architecture moved away from the dominant school of classicism in favour of a more creative freedom of expression. At the forefront of this change were architect brothers Robert and James Adam. Kondo’s work places them within the context of eighteenth-century intellectual thought.
Author | : Colin Thom |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781848023598 |
Robert Adam is perhaps the best known of all British architects, the only one whose name denotes both a style and an era. The new decorative language he introduced at Kedleston and Syon around 1760 put him at the forefront of dynamic changes taking place in 18th-century British architecture. His later claim that his practice with his brother James had effected 'a kind of revolution' in design was no idle boast. Their style dominated the later Georgian period and their influence was widespread, not only in Western Europe but in Russia and North America. But for such a well-known figure, much of Robert Adam's art still remains poorly understood. This new study, based on papers given at a Georgian Group symposium in 2015, looks afresh at many aspects of the Adam brothers' oeuvre, such as interior planning, their use of colour, the influence of classical sources, their involvement in the art market, town planning and building speculation, and Robert Adam's late picturesque drawings and castle designs - all within the context of the Adam family background and their personal and working relationships. The Scottish architecture of Robert and James's older brother, John, is also assessed. There are essays by established Adam experts as well as contributions from a younger generation of historians and postdoctoral scholars, one of the book's aims being to stimulate further research on the Adams' contribution to British architecture, art and design.
Author | : David King |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1135142491 |
This volume is a unique compendium of the works of Robert and James Adam, both built and unbuilt. It includes 900 illustrations. The Complete Works of Robert and James Adam is reprinted here in its entirety, updated and corrected. This title covers every one of the 230 or so built works, including 12 that have been recently discovered. It is complemented by a completely new title, Unbuilt Adam. This mentions all the brothers' important unbuilt projects, and it discusses and illustrates 130 of them. This volume gives an exceptionally thorough review of the brothers' designs. From public buildings to country houses, and monuments to ceilings, it is well informed and erudite. It provides a mine of information for both the expert and the general reader, and it uses the works covered to give an understanding of the Adam manner.
Author | : John Wilton-Ely |
Publisher | : London : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9780500274774 |
Author | : Adriano Aymonino |
Publisher | : Paul Mellon Centre |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Aesthetics, Modern |
ISBN | : 9781913107178 |
"The central decades of the 18th century in Britain were crucial to the history of European taste and design. One of the period's most important campaigns of patronage and collecting was that of the 1st Duke and Duchess of Northumberland: Sir Hugh Smithson (1712-86) and Lady Elizabeth Seymour Percy (1716-76). This book examines four houses they refurbished in eclectic architectural styles--Stanwick Hall, Northumberland House, Syon House, and Alnwick Castle--alongside the innumerable objects they collected, their funerary monuments, and their persistent engagement in Georgian London's public sphere. Over the years, their commissions embraced or pioneered styles as varied as Palladianism, rococo, neoclassicism, and Gothic revival. In every instance, minute details contributed to large-scale projects expressing the Northumberlands' various aesthetic and cultural allegiances. Their development sheds light on the eclectic taste of Georgian Britain, the emergence of neoclassicism, and the cultures of the Grand Tour and the Enlightenment."--Jacket flap.
Author | : P.D. James |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-06-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0743219589 |
Adam Dalgluish is called to the elegant Steen Psychiatric Clinic to investigate why the head of the clinic, Enid Bolan was found with a chisel through her heart.
Author | : Robert Adam |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788887669121 |
Author | : Adam Roberts |
Publisher | : Gollancz |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 2015-12-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0575127740 |
Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenters' The Thing. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one of them has received. One is practical and open. The other surly, superior and obsessed with reading one book - by the philosopher Kant. As a storm brews and they lose contact with the outside world they debate Kant, reality and the emptiness of the universe. The come to hate each other, and they learn that they are not alone.
Author | : Roderick Graham |
Publisher | : Birlinn Publishers |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of 'Age of Elegance' than Robert Adam (1728-92), the pre-eminent architect of his day whose expertise and imagination extended also to interior design, furniture and garden design. His legacy has echoed through design ever since, his name synonymous with elegance, the Enlightenment, of the best features of the eighteenth century. In this fascinating biography, Roderick Graham follows Adam's life and career from schooldays in Edinburgh through study in Italy and the establishment of his architectural practice in London. It explains his passionate ambition, not only to excel as an architect, but to be accepted as a gentleman in that most snobbish period of our history.