Classical Architecture: A Complete Handbook

by Robert Adam, Derek Brentnall (Illustrator)

In Classical Architecture Robert Adam traces the history of classical design to the present day and provides examples of virtually every one of its applications.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Reference

319 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 1990

About the author

Robert Adam is an architect and author, a major figure in traditional and classical architecture.

Not to be confused with the earlier Robert Adam, a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer of the 1700s.

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Reviews

[Sula]

This book gives a really good overview of classical architecture, and is presented in a way that makes it approachable even if you are not a student or an architect yourself. Each double page spread covers a subsection: one a page of text, the other with drawings and diagrams relating to the text.

[Elham]

this book is a general review on classicism. each page has a discrete subject with picture. but its not very rich in theories.