Robert Adam

Robert Adam

Robert Adam (3 July 1728 – 3 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death. In 1754, he left for Rome, spending nearly five years on the continent studying architecture under Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in undefined different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Adam is the NaNth most popular architect, the NaNth most popular biography from United Kingdom.

Robert Adam is most famous for his neoclassical architecture. He is credited with being the founder of the neoclassical movement in architecture.