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dc.coverage.spatialSite: London, England, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1768-1772 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorAdam, Roberten_US
dc.creatorAdam, Johnen_US
dc.date1768-1772en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-20T14:57:16Z
dc.date.available2012-12-20T14:57:16Z
dc.date.issued1768-1772en_US
dc.identifier177767en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 2120en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/82908
dc.descriptionEntry to Number 9 John Adam Street; Adam House (7-10 John Adam Street) is part of the Adelphi development designed in 1768-1772 by brothers Robert and John Adam. In addition to individual town houses, Robert Adam engaged in a number of urban-planning schemes. He often introduced varied shapes, including squares, crescents and circuses, although his long terraces of juxtaposed houses or unified façades on the sides of a square were more common. For these, he took the principles of his individual town-house compositions and adapted them to large and more complex groupings, often applying the delicate ornamentation in Liardet’s cement. The grandest of Adam’s schemes was the Adelphi, built on leased land between the Strand and the Thames. He embanked the Thames, raising the Royal Terrace’s houses (destroyed) above vaulted warehouses that he hoped the Government would lease. For this, and for the rest of this H-shaped development, he employed his favourite decorative elements, but in a composition without an obvious central emphasis. Though aesthetically satisfying, the Adelphi was a failure financially for the brothers. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/17/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumbrick; stone; Liardet’s cementen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectcityscapeen_US
dc.subjectCity planningen_US
dc.subjectNeoclassicalen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.titleJohn Adam Street [Adelphi development]en_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-AJ-JA-C3en_US
vra.culturalContextBritishen_US
vra.techniqueconstruction (assembling)en_US
vra.worktyperow houseen_US
vra.worktypestreeten_US
vra.worktypehousing projecten_US
dc.contributor.displayJohn Adam (British architect, 1721-1792); Robert Adam (British architect, 1728-1792)en_US


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