Professor Robert Adam, DIPL ARCH (PCL) RIBA FRSA
Director, Robert Adam Architects
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Robert Adam’s contribution to the classical tradition is internationally acknowledged, both as a scholar and as a designer of traditional and progressive classical architecture. He is also a designer of classical furniture.
He founded the Popular Housing Forum in 1995 as a result of his long involvement with speculative housing and masterplanning. He was also one of the founders of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU) in 2000.
Robert Adam’s work is widely published, broadcast and exhibited. He writes, lectures and broadcasts on a variety of subjects including classical architecture, masterplanning, housing, countryside issues, heritage and globalisation. He has also undertaken lecture tours of the USA and Russia.
Professional Memberships
- Member of the RIBA
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild
- Architecture Club Committee, from 1987
- Chairman – Popular Housing Group, from 1995-2003, now merged and
- Trustee of Design for Homes from 2003.
- Elected RIBA Councillor, Trustee of RIBA from 1999
- Commission for Architecture & the Built Environment, Design Review Committee 1999-2004
- Trustee – RIBA Trust from 2003 - 2006
- Academy of Urbanism from 2006
- Visiting Professor for Urban Design at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Awards and Exhibitions
- Award of Excellence for Masterplan for Western Harbour, Edinburgh, CNU Awards 2008
- Award for a New Building in the Classical Tradition, Georgian Group Awards 2007
- Best Private Housing Development, Brick Awards 2004
- Marsh Country Life Awards, Solar House, Best House 2001
- Best Partnership Development Commendation, Roman Court, Rocester, 2000
- St Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, September 2000
- Vision of Europe, Urban Renaissance, 1996
Current Projects
- Masterplanning mixed use environment within Leith docks, Scotland
- New office building, Piccadilly, London. Completed April 2007.
- New house, Hampstead, London
- New hotel, Greenwich, London
Published Drawings and Articles
- UNESCO paper “Lessons from History in the Conservation of Historic Urban Landscapes” UNESCO Conference, November 2007
- “Hidden Passions” The Guardian, July 2006
- “The Culture of Conservation” Planning in London, Jan-March 2006
- “Differences between historic urban experience in Europe and the USA” Council Report, April 2003
- “Does heritage dogma destroy living history?” Context: 79, May 2003
- “How to build skyscrapers” City Journal, Spring 2002
- “Clarifying Classicism” The Architects Journal, 3 February 2000
- “The Case for Tradition” Building Design, 10 July 1998
- “Globalisation and Architecture” Architectural Review, February 2008
- “Classical Architecture – A Complete Handbook” Robert Adam. First published 1990
- “Tradition Today – Continuity in Architecture and Society” – Edited by Robert Adam and Matthew Hardy, Published February 2008
