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Professor Robert Adam is a British traditional architect. In 1976, Adam joined Winchester based practice Evans, Roberts and Partners, before it became in incorporated in 1986 as Winchester Design. The name Robert Adam Architects was adopted in 1992 and in 2000 and to ADAM Architecture in March 2010; a well-known firm specialising in traditional architecture and urban design with offices in Winchester and London. In 2020 Adam resigned as a director of ADAM Architecture and set up a new firm, Robert Adam Architectural Consultancy.

Adam was a Rome Scholar in 1973-4 and was Chairman of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the British School at Rome from 1993-7. He was a founder of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU) in 2001 and remains its chairman. He created the Traditional Architecture Group (TAG) in 2003. He has been honorary secretary of the RIBA and an elected councillor; has served on English Heritage and CABE design review panels; is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician at the Academy of Urbanism, a Senior Fellow of the Prince’s Foundation for the Building Community; an elected Brother of the Art Workers’ Guild; and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

A prominent figure in architecture education, Adam is a visiting professor of urban design at the University of Strathclyde.

Adam has written and co-written numerous books, articles and papers on architecture including: Classical Architecture: A complete handbook (1990 and 2018); Robert Adam: The Search for a Modern Classicism (2010); The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: The Impact of Politics, Economics and Social Change on Architecture and Urban Design since 1990 (2012); Classic Columns: 40 Years of Writing on Architecture (2017); and Time for Architecture: On Modernity, Memory and Time in Architecture and Urban Design (2020).

Awards include: Georgian Group Awards 2007, Best New Building in the Classical Tradition; Congress for the New Urbanism Charter Award of Excellence, 2008; Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, Arthur Ross Award 2015; and the Richard H. Driehaus Prize, 2017, recognising lifetime contribution to traditional, classical and sustainable architecture and urbanism.

Education Diploma in Architecture, University of Westminster.

Significant buildings (2001) Sackler Library for Oxford University, Oxfordshire (2005) Ashley Park, Hampshire, new country house (2007) 200 Piccadilly, St. James’s Street for Standard Life Investments, Greater London (2010) William Wake House for St Andrew’s Healthcare, Northamptonshire (2013) Fortescue Fields in Norton St Philip for Lochailort Investments Ltd, Somerset (2019) Ravenswick Hall, Yorkshire, new country house.