Robert Adam: Drawings and Imagination (Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture) [Hardcover]

A. A. Tait (Author)

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Publication Date: February 25, 1994 | Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Architecture

This book attempts to explain how the great eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam went about the business of design. It therefore deals with Adam's drawings rather than the buildings themselves, and tries to show that these pen, wash and watercolour 'inventions', of which he was an acknowledged master, were the ideal vehicle for his architectural ideas. It was to this end that Robert and his brother James studied drawing and composition in the most advanced drawing schools of Rome. The Adam publication The Works of Architecture (1773) attempted an equation between drawing style, Robert Adam 'inventions' and the Picturesque, which dominated the last 20 years of the Adam practice. The Works itself is seen as a seminal book which obliquely supplied the theory for the Adam interpretation of the Picturesque in its various prefaces and the plates themselves. In all of this Adam was served by a carefully-organised office, itself virtually a drawing academy.

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'Written objectively and with clarity ... successful in its aims.' Robert Tavernor, Architects Journal

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A.A. Tait discusses the architectural imagination of the great architect Robert Adam, examining his work chiefly through his use of coloured or wash drawings, and relying largely on two collections, that of the Soane Museum in London and the familial holding of drawings at Blair Adam.

Product Details

Hardcover: 194 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (February 25, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521433150
ISBN-13: 978-0521433150
Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.7 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,705,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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