Architect Robert Adam: A Place at the Table - With Geoffrey Baer

Many Americans assume Britain is a country that reveres traditional architecture. Images of grand country homes, royal palaces and quaint rural villages spring readily to mind. But in fact over the past half century or more contemporary British culture has been indifferent to these iconic snapshots of national identity.
Architect Robert Adam wanted to change all that. Adam has devoted his life and career to persuading Britain’s architectural establishment to recognize the importance of the traditional in modern British architectural practice. Through a persuasive personal style, a powerful wit, and a talent for design, the Winchester-based architect has made a place at the table for architecture that respects and extends the vocabulary of classical and traditional buildings in today’s built environment.
In A Place at the Table: Architect Robert Adam, host Geoffrey Baer introduces us to Adam's work, philosophy, and life. Meet Adam's colleagues, clients, and critics and tour some of his magisterial buildings in Britain. Beginning with his rebellion against schooling that solely espoused modernism and his awakening to classical architecture in Rome, through his subsequent return to England and success as a journalist and architect, discover a man at once contrarian and confident, yet utterly likable and warm.

[@tyeteames7192]

Now this is true skill,talent and knowledge.
Lord we need more people like this.

[@AdamTomaszczyk]

Amazing material.
Thank you so much for sharing it.
It deserves thousands of views. Tens of thousands.

[@craigathonian]

My hero ! i like and admire all creative designs, but love the mathematical proportions of classical...ancient and new. Mixing and hybridizing with modernism ?.....HEAVEN !
But i have to disagree on the American assuming statement, England is not a desolate far away and unseen country. You're thinking too myopically ! Many Americans are very aware of the desires and fumbled attempts of England's striving for a more contemporary style. There are quite a few colorful conversations even at the uneducated tables, so no, Americans are very aware, maybe even too much so for my taste. They are just more admiring and appreciative of what anybody does well, while the weaker attempts are dismissed or ignored.

[@stevemiller7949]

For starters, could we please stop destroying quite so many beautiful old buildings in America?