Adam style/Adamesque
Later version of European Neoclassicism based on Robert's Adam's studies of excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii.
Colonial ...
Robert Adam - Scottish architect who designed many public buildings in England and Scotland (1728-1792)
Adam ...
Three Scottish brothers named Adam adapted the pragmatic Georgian style, adding swags, garlands, urns, and Neoclassical details. In the American colonies, homes and public buildings also took on graceful airs.
Adam style 1770 England
Adirondack architecture 1850s New York, USA
Anglo-Saxon architecture 450s-1066 England and Wales
American colonial architecture 1720-1780s USA
American Craftsman 1890s-1930 USA, California & east ...
1. Adam, Robert, Classical Architecture: A Comprehensive Handbook to the Tradition of Classical Style, New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990 ...
ADAM/FEDERAL
Side-gabled or hip Roof: moderate or varied pitch, or low pitch
Slight eave overhang, boxed with modillions, dentils, or other classical moldings
gabled or pedimented dormers ...
Wren, Nicholas Hawksmoor, James Gibbs, John Webb and other architects continued on the same lines, and in r 760 Robert Adam introduced his type of ceiling, sometimes horizontal, and sometimes segmental, in which panels are suggested only, ...
Federal houses resemble English "Adam" houses (named for the brothers Adam, Scottish architects and designers of interiors and furniture) from which they are stylistically descended.
Robert Adam popularized classicism, expressing it notably through delicate stucco ornamentation.
Not surprisingly therefore he had his critics who sneeringly referred to his work as "Adam's Gingerbread".
A style associated with the Scottish architect Robert Adam (1728-92), marked by delicate all-over ornament derived largely from the decoration of ancient Roman interiors.
In architecture, Neoclassicism led to the work of the Adam brothers in England, Ledoux in France and Jefferson in America. In music, Neoclassical refers to a twentieth century reaction to the excesses of Romanticism.
The novelist George Eliot introduced realism into English fiction; as she declared in Adam Bede (1859), her purpose was to give a "faithful representation of commonplace things.
In architecture it saw the rise of Palladianism; the styles of Robert Adam; the fashions for Rococo, Chinoiserie, Gothick and Hindoo. It also embraced early Gothic and Greek revivals and Neoclassicism.
The four successive phases of the Redemption, as revealed in Holy Writ, from Adam's sin to the divine expiation, are likened, by means of verses and schemata, to the four basic figures of geometry, the four elements of of music, and so forth....
 See also: Architecture, House, Roman, Classical, Greek
  
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