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Country House Ideal: Revent Work by ADAM Architecture (Hardcover)
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Country House Ideal: Revent Work by ADAM Architecture (Hardcover)
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ADAM Architecture has a worldwide reputation for traditional
Western design. Although the practice is based in the UK, it has
built award-winning projects of all types around the world, and is
known for combining modern interpretations of the Classical
tradition with the latest technology. Among its most admired work
are its country houses, and 19 of these houses are the focus of
this new book, written by architectural historian Jeremy Musson.
Robert Adam co-founded the practice (as Winchester Design) in 1986,
and has worked with technical director Paul Hanvey for more than 30
years (including at a previous incarnation of the practice). Adam
now works with three other architect-directors - Nigel Anderson,
Hugh Petter and George Saumarez Smith - to build country houses
that are not period reproductions but creative interpretations of
past traditions. Each director has his own architectural
personality, together producing a body of work that uses historical
precedents, including construction techniques, materials, layout
and details, to give expression to thoroughly modern works. Their
schemes address the modern-day realities of energy conservation,
climate control, internet access, computer-managed systems and
security - all prerequisites in contemporary house design. Unlike
country houses of the past, today's houses must be functional
without live-in staff. Kitchens are now the focus of much family
life and entertaining, rather than spaces to be kept from sight.
These and numerous other practical considerations receive
meticulous attention in an ADAM Architecture country house. The
book begins with two forewords, with Clive Aslet and Calder Loth
offering their interpretations of the ideal country house from a
British and an American perspective respectively. The introduction
provides an overview of the rich and varied tradition of the
English country house, from the medieval manor house to houses of
the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, and the Classically inspired
designs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through to the
architecture of the Gothic Revival and then the Arts and Crafts
Movement. Architects associated with the country house throughout
the ages include, among others, John Vanburgh, William Chambers,
Robert Adam, John Nash and Sir Edwin Lutyens. And now, today, ADAM
Architecture is one of the leading practices designing and building
new country houses.
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