Built and Unbuilt (Complete Works of Robert and James Adam and Unbuilt Adam) - Hardcover

King, David N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0750644680 ISBN 13: 9780750644686

Publisher: Architectural Press, 2001

Synopsis

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. This is the definitive collection, one complete source of Adam 260 executed and 230 unexecuted works. It features detailed descriptions with photographs, drawings, plans, elevations and sectional drawings.

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Review

Reviews of 'The Complete Works':
"There have been two Scottish works that deserve distinction. One is David King's 'Complete Works of Robert and James Adam' which should be on everyone's shelf."
John Harris, former curator of the RIBA drawings collection

"The author has produced one of those books which is erudite without being pretentious, well informed without being boring; in fact the sort of book that any lover of eighteenth century architecture would relish on his desert island."
Dan Cruickshank, Architects Journal

"King and his publishers have done a grand job...this is a most useful and handsome volume and should be owned by all those interested in the architecture of the second half of the eighteenth century."
James Stevens Curl, Literary Review

From the Publisher

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750644680
• ISBN 13: 9780750644686
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 768