Adam style

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The Adam style (eng. Adam style ) is a classical architectural style (Classical Revival), which mainly by the Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728-1792) and his brother James Adam was coined and named after them.

presentation

It represents an interpretation of the English Palladianism , but in which picturesque classical forms flow like them. a. can also be found in rotundas and the thermal baths of the Roman Empire , and is characterized by the Greek and Roman architecture of antiquity. In England, this replaced the Rococo and ran parallel to the Louis-Seize style.

The term or style can also be found in interior design and furniture designs. In Berlin and the surrounding area it was also known under the name Muthesius , named after Hermann Muthesius as the German representative of this style.

distribution

The "British column order" developed by Robert Adam in this style was u. a. Realized in Carlton House in London's Pall Mall as part of numerous renovations.

In the United States of America, William Hamilton's residential building was rebuilt in this style from 1788. There, as in England, the oval design was before Adam, as it is e.g. B. was practiced in France in the Château de Vaux-la-Douce , largely unknown.

As the Georgian Style , it flowed into British bourgeois architecture and thus shaped cities such as Bath and Edinburgh .

literature

  • The Works in Architecture of Robert and James Adam. 1777. (Reprint: Dover Publications, 2006, ISBN 0-486-44966-1 .)
  • Adam style. VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller, 2010, ISBN 978-6131-1998-44
  • Hermann Muthesius; The English house: development, conditions, layout, construction, furnishing and interior. Vol. 1-3. 1st edition Berlin 1904–1905. (Reprint of the 2nd edition: Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-7861-1853-1 )
  • Richard Reid: Architectural Style. Seemann-Verlag 2009, ISBN 978-3-86502-042-0 .
  • Joseph and Anne Rykwert: Robert and James Adam. The artists and the style. Stuttgart 1987. ISBN 3-421-02892-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hanno-Walter Kruft: History of the architectural theory: from antiquity to the present . 3. Edition. Beck, Munich 1991, ISBN 978-3-406-34903-4 , pp. 288 ( books.google.de [accessed December 22, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Marcus Whiffen, Frederick Koeper: American Architecture: 1607-1976 . Luzern Ars pro toto, 2008, ISBN 978-3-9523089-4-3 , p. 126 ( books.google.de [accessed December 22, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Hans-Dieter Gelfert: Typically English: how the British became what they are (=  Beck'sche Reihe . No. 1088 ). 5th edition. Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-406-49414-7 , pp. 142 ( books.google.de [accessed December 22, 2016]).