PUBLICATIONS LIST


Publications List

Publications List

1.0 ROBERT ADAM: PUBLICATIONS (1975- )

1.1 Books of which ROBERT ADAM is Sole Author:
1.1.1 (1990) Classical Architecture: A complete handbook (London: Viking). ISBN: 9780670844661.
1.1.2 (1990) Classical Design in the late twentieth century: recent work of Robert Adam (Winchester: Winchester Design). ISBN: 9781872911052.
1.1.3 (1991) Classical Architecture: A complete handbook to the tradition of Classical style (New York: Abrams). ISBN: 0810931664.
1.1.4 (1994) Buildings by Design (Hemel Hempstead: Simon & Schuster Young Books). ISBN: 9780750015226.
1.1.5 (2010) The 7 Sins of Architects (Winchester: Adam Publishing). ISBN-10: 0956414613; ISBN-13: 978-0956414618.
1.1.6 (2012) The Globalisation of Modern Architecture: the impact of politics, economics, and social change on architecture and urban design since 1900 (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing). ISBN: 9781443839051.
1.1.7 (2012) Heritage and Culture (London: The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community). ISBN: 9781906384067.
1.1.8 (2017) Classic Columns: 40 Years of Writing on Architecture (London: Cumulus Books). ISBN: 978 0 9564146-3-2.
1.1.9 (2020) Time for Architecture: On Modernity, Memory and Time in Architecture and Urban Design (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). ISBN(10):1-5275-4597-0; ISBN(13):978-1-5275-4597-7.
1.1.10 (2020) Los Siete Pecados Capitales de los Arquitectos (Madrid, Ediciones Asimétricas) ISBN 9798-84-17905-55-8.

1.2 Books edited by ROBERT ADAM and/or contributions made by him to books edited by others:
1.2.1 Editor and contributor Hampshire Architects Newsheet (1980).
1.2.2 ‘The Case for the Return of Classical Composition’ in Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought edited by Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw (London; New York: Routledge, 1993) 378-386. ISBN: 0415010225.
1.2.3 ‘Invention, Modernity, and the Classical Tradition’ in Building Classical: A Vision of Europe and America edited by Richard Economakis (London: Academy Editions 1993) 192-198. ISBN: 1854902881; 9781854902887; 1854901575; 9781854901576. 
1.2.4 ‘The Consumer, the Developer, the Architect, the Planner: Whose Design is Good?’ in Good Design in Speculative Housing: The Royal Fine Art Commission Seminar 3 December 1997 edited by Robert Bargery (London: Builder Group 1998) 28-33. ISBN: none.
1.2.5 ‘Tradition and the Driving Force of Urban Identity’ in Context: new buildings in historic settings edited by John Warren, John Worthington, and Sue Taylor (Oxford: Architectural Press, 1998) 30-37. ISBN: 075066 37382.
1.2.6 ‘The Other Modern: Tradition in Architecture and Society’ in The Classicist 5 (Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture: New York, 1998-99) 42-45. ISBN: 0765804921.
1.2.7 ‘The Sackler Library: ancient and modern’ in Studies in Classical Archaeology, V. III, Reception of Classical Art: an introduction edited by Donna Kurtz (Oxford: The Beazley Archive & Archaeopress. 2004) 85-89. ISBN: 1841716456; 9781841716459.
1.2.8 ‘Preface’ for New Classicists. Ken Tate: Selected Houses, volume two by Ken Tate (Muldrave, Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2005) 12-14. ISBN: 1920744436.
1.2.9 ‘Traditional Architecture: why communities need it’ in Tradition Today: continuity in architecture and society edited by Robert Adam and Matthew Hardy (Southampton: WIT Press, 2008) 116-123. ISBN: 9781845640668.
1.2.10 ‘Traditional Urban Design’ in Dortmunder Vorträge zur Stadtbaukunst 1 edited by Christoph Mäckler and Wolfgang Sonne (HG) (Zürich: Niggli AG, 2009) 46-61. ISBN (10): 3721207149; ISBN (13): 9783721207149.
1.2.11 ‘Globalisation and Tradition’ in New Architecture and Urbanism: Development of Indian Traditions edited by Deependra Prashad (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2010) 24-34. ISBN (10): 1443818690; ISBN (13): 9781443818698.
1.2.12 ‘Heritage’ in The Venice Charter Revisited: modernism, conservation and tradition in the 21st century edited by Matthew Hardy (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011) 3-15. ISBN (10): 1443826669; ISBN (13): 9781443826662.
1.2.13 ‘Identity and Identification: the role of architectural identity in a globalized world’ in The role of place identity in the perception, understanding, and design of built environments by Hernan Caskin and Fátima Bernardo (Oak Park, III: Bentham eBooks, 2012) 176-193. eISBN: 9781608054138.
1.2.14 ‘Endorsement (backcover) for The Imperfect City: On Architectural Judgement by Samir Younés (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2012). ISBN: 9781409446682 1409446689.
1.2.15 ‘Tradition and Invention’ in The Art of Classical Details: theory, design, and craftsmanship by Phillip James Dodd (Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing Group, 2013) 65-67. ISBN: 9781864702033.
1.2.16 ‘Doha, Qatar’ in Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region edited by Golzari Nasser and Murray Fraser (Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2013) 105-127. ISBN: 9781409443148 (hbk); 9781409470984 (ePub ebook); 9781409443155 (PDF ebook).
1.2.17 Contributor to Traditional Architecture: timeless building for the twenty-first century edited by Alireza Sagharchi and Lucien Steil (New York: Rizzoli International Publishers, 2013) 184-185; 300-301. ISBN: 9780847840809.
1.2.18 ‘Building the Capriccio’ in The Architectural Capriccio: memory, fantasy and invention Vol.1, edited by Lucien Steil (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Studies in Architecture, 2014) 365-382. ISBN: 9781409431916.
1.2.19 ‘Tradition and Globalisation in the Contemporary City’ in Tradition and Heritage in the Contemporary Image of the City edited by Tomasz Jeleński, Stanisław Juchnowicz, and Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz (Kraków, Poland: INTBAU, 2015) 49-55 ISBN: 9788372428691.
1.2.20 ‘Communities Old and New: military brown fields and the Aldershot Urban Extension’ in Sustainable Regeneration of Former Military Sites edited by Samer Bagaeen and Celia Clark (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2016) 89-105. ISBN: 97811380165271 (hbk); 9781315621784 (ebk). 
1.2.21 ‘Identifying trends in masterplanning: a typological classification system’ in Rethinking Masterplanning: Creating Quality Places editited by Husam AlWaer and Barbara Illsley (ICE Publishing) 161-175. ISBN: 9780727760715.
1.2.22 ‘Have More Fun’ in How we celebrate the Coronation, edited by Stephen Bayley and Robert Bargery (Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust, 2023) ISBN-10 ‏: ‎1399948954

1.3 Articles and Sundry Contributions to Journals authored solely by ROBERT ADAM:
1970s
1.3.1 ‘Who are the autonomous people?’ The Architects’ Journal (9 Apr 1975) 752. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.2 ‘The Inevitable Destruction’ The Architectural Review ‘Old Lamps for New: A Special Issue’ CLVIII/945 (Nov 1975) 279-280. ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.3.3 ‘Architectural Renaissance’ Building Design (17 Sept 1976) 16-18. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.4 ‘Pattern Books’ Building Design (24 Sept 1976) 16-17. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.5 ‘Can the leopard change its spots’ Hampshire Architects Viewpoint (1977).
1.3.6 ‘Theatres on the move’ Building Design (18 Feb 1977) 12-13. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.7 ‘Mutual Understanding’ The Architectural Review RSVP (Apr 1977) 196-197. ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.3.8 ‘Concrete solution’ Building Design (6 May 1977) 25. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.9 ‘A Tale of Two Schools’ Building Design (5 May 1978) 19. ISSN: 0007-3423.

1980s
1.3.10 ‘End of Rome Scholarships?’ The Architectural Review CLXVIII/1002 (Aug 1980) 60. ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.3.11 ‘New buildings need not be ugly’ The Sunday Times (15 Nov 1981) 18. ISSN: 0956-1382.
1.3.12 ‘In Defence of Historicism’ RIBA Journal 88/12 (Dec 1981) 39-43. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.13 ‘Astragal’ The Architects’ Journal (7 Jul 1982) 79. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.14 ‘Radiance of the past’ The Architects’ Journal 46/178 (16 Nov 1983) 71-73. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.15 ‘Classic Views’ The Architects’ Journal 181/30 (26 Jan 1985) 18. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.16 ‘Why new is very old’ The Monitor Business Magazine Special Report (30 Mar 1987) 11.
1.3.17 The Academy Forum: A Personal View’ Architectural Design 58/11-12 (1988) 16-17. ISSN: 0003-8504.
1.3.18 ‘Discussion on Prince Charles and the Architectural Debate’ Architectural Design 59/5-6 (1988) 37. ISSN: 0003-8504.
1.3.19 ‘The paradox of imitation and originality’ Architectural Design Imitation and Innovation 58/9-10 (Feb 1988) 18-19. ISSN: 0003-8504. 
1.3.20 ‘Spurious linkage: does the development of technology impose a duty to produce an architecture which reflects this process?’ Building Design, On Architecture 875 (4 Mar 1988) 32-33. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.21 ‘Holding the tiller steady’ Building Design 899 (19 Aug 1988) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.22 ‘Building Blocks: Is someone just about to build houses in your back yard? Will new building spoil your treasured view? Is a developer about to transform the village or town you call home?’ All About Hampshire (1989) 29.
1.3.23 ‘Tin Gods: technology and contemporary architecture’ Architectural Design 59/9-10 (9 Oct 1989) viii-xvi. ISSN: 0003-8504.
1990s
1.3.24 ‘What’s the use of architecture schools? Architecture Today Opinion 5 (Feb 1990). ISSN: 0958-6407.
1.3.25 ‘Is this the junction of our dreams? The Guardian Arts (11 Jun 1990) 37. ISSN: 0261-3077.
1.3.26 ‘My kind of town’ Architecture Today 27 (Apr 1991) 80. ISSN: 0958-6407.
1.3.27 ‘The legacy of Modernism in New Classicism’ Architectural Design 62/5 (1992) 60-61. ISSN: 0003-8504.
1.3.28 ‘A Statement by Robert Adam’ Ruskin Tradition and Architecture (Exhibition Catalogue) Peter Scott Gallery, Lancashire University (4-29 May 1992) 20.
1.3.29 ‘Classical Architecture, Modernity and Antiquity’ The Royal College of Art, Architecture, and Interior Design (Jun 1992) 9-11.
1.3.30 ‘Shaping up: Terry Farrell at Vauxhall Cross’ Architecture Today Building 38 (May 1993) 24-26; 29-30. ISSN: 0958-6407.
1.3.31 ‘New buildings in an historic context’ RIBA Journal 100/2 (Feb 1993) 27-28. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.32 ‘A Robert Adam for the 90s’ The Architects’ Journal (5 May 1993) 28-29. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.33 ‘Will Prince of Wales change speculative housing?’ Newsletter for the Construction in the South Viewpoint (1994) 8.
1.3.34 ‘Space Station’ Perspectives on Architecture 1/1 (Apr 1994) 44-48. ISSN: 1352-7584.
1.3.35 ‘Obeying Orders’ Perspectives on Architecture Classicism 1/4 (Jul 1994) 34-37. ISSN: 1352-7584.
1.3.36 ‘Sacred Cows’ The Royal Crescent Society Newsletter 27 (Spring 1995) 15-16.
1.3.37 ‘Another nail in the coffin – pedestrianisation of the high street’ Perspectives (May 1995).
1.3.38 ‘Classical Blunders’ Building Design (5 May 1995) 18. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.39 ‘Tradition and the modern city’ City Journal Urbanities 5/4 (Autumn 1995) 109-115. ISSN: 1060-8540.
1.3.40 ‘Chalk and Cheese, Planning and Design’ South Talk (RTPI) (Jan/Mar 1996) 5.
1.3.41 ‘How can we improve the design of housing in Britain?’ Perspectives (Aug/Sept 1996) 9.
1.3.42 ‘The Design of Housing’ Perspectives (Aug/Sept 1996) 2-3.
1.3.43 ‘The RIBA Awards have become a lazy event of professional back slapping’ Perspectives Comment (Oct/Nov 1997) 9.
1.3.44 ‘Het andere moderne: traditie in architectuur en maatschappij’ 40 Archis (1998) 40-43. ISSN: 09218041.
1.3.45 ‘What the country wants – Adam’s Aphorisms’ Building Homes, Popular Housing Forum’ (Mar 1998) 19.
1.3.46 ‘The Case for Tradition’ Building Design (10 Jul 1998) 26. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.47 ‘Et in Arcadia Ego’ Grange Park Opera Festival Programme (Mar 1999) 70-71.
1.3.48 ‘What’s so wrong with tradition? Aspects of Property’ (Savills) 48 (Autumn 1999) 15.
1.3.49 ‘Classicism a technologia dell’archittura contemporanae’ Costruire In Laterizio (July/Aug 1999) 16-19. 

2000s
1.3.50 ‘Clarifying Classicism’ The Architects’ Journal 211/4 (3 Feb 2000) 46. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.51 ‘Should we list post-war buildings? No.’ The Independent on Sunday (13 Aug 2000) 26. ISSN: 0951-9467.
1.3.52 ‘A new Lincoln Centre’ City Journal (NY) (Autumn 2000) 22-25. ISSN: 1060-8540.
1.3.53 ‘These heritage zealots are destroying our freedom and our history’ The Times Comment (16 Dec 2000) 24. ISSN: 1759-9016.
1.3.54 ‘St Paul’s Cathedral’ The Sunday Times ‘Millennium Masterworks’ (Jan 2001) 6. ISSN: 0956-1382. 
1.3.55 ‘No heart for heritage’ Building Design Comment (12 Jan 2001) 13. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.56 ‘RIBA admits planning flaws’ Building Design News (23 Nov 2001) 7. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.57 ‘RIBA guidance in the preparation of planning applications’ Planning in London (Jan 2002) 30-31.
1.3.58 ‘How to Build Skyscrapers’ City Journal Urbanities 12/2 (Spring 2002) 96-109. ISSN: 1060-8540.
1.3.59 ‘The countryside needs new ambitious houses not new bureaucracy and snobbery’ The Times Comment (9 May 2002) 24. ISSN: 1759-9016.
1.3.60 ‘Power and Status in the City’ The Spectator Arts (6 Jul 2002) 37-38. ISSN: 0038-6952.
1.3.61 ‘Differences Between the Historic Urban Experience in Europe and the USA’ Council Report V (Belgium: The Euro Council) (Apr 2003) 10 & 48.
1.3.62 ‘Rocester Town Centre’ Council Report V (Belgium: The Euro Council) (Apr 2003) 22-23.
1.3.63 ‘Does heritage dogma destroy living history?’ Context 79 (Institute of Historic Building Conservation) (May 2003) 7-11.
1.3.64 ‘Life after Paternoster’ Building Design Comment & Analysis (30 May 2003) 10. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.65 Bakom den gröna porten’ (‘Behind the Green Door’) Pontus Gazette (Autumn 2003) 14. 
1.3.66 ‘Books’ Building Design, Radar (28 May 2004) 27. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.67 ‘What people want’ Building Design Comment (2 Jul 2004) 10. ISSN: 0007—3423.
1.3.68 ‘PPS 7’ Architectural Research Architectural Brief (Knight Frank) (2005).
1.3.69 ‘A disappointing “rogues” gallery, say architects’ Building Design (12 Aug 2005) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.70 ‘The culture of conservation’ Planning in London 56 (Jan–Mar 2006) 32.
1.3.71 ‘Is this building dangerous? Against’; ‘Arrogant Idea’ The Observer Design (9 Apr 2006) 11, and Architects’ Journal, Astragal (13 April 2006). ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.72 ‘The Country House goes green’ Perspectives (Jackson-Stops Magazine) (Summer 2006) 40-41.
1.3.73 ‘Hidden Passions’ The Guardian Office Hours (24 Jul 2006) 3. ISSN: 0261-3077.
1.3.74 Planning for the future’ Country Life (31 Aug 2006) 59. ISSN: 0045-8856.
1.3.75 ‘Save us from Celebs’ RIBA Journal Up Front (Sept 2006) 14. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.76 ‘Hooked on Classics’ The Sunday Times Living (24 Sept 2006) 46. ISSN: 0956-1382.
1.3.77 ‘All office buildings do is wrap space. When you wrap the building you provide an identity’ The Architects’ Journal Specification (Oct 2006) 13-26. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.78 ‘Break free of World Heritage Tyranny’ Building Design Soapbox (27 Oct 2006) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.79 ‘Friends For Life’ RIBA Journal ‘Viewpoint’ (Nov 2006) 05. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.80 ‘Sketch Book: Bronze Column Capital without Abacus’ The Architects’ Journal (11 Jan 2007) 58. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.81 ‘Does politics have a role to play in architecture? No.’ Building Design (1 Jun 2007) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.82 ‘Another View. Architect Robert Adam on BBC1’s How we Built Britain’ The Guardian Media and TV Blog, and Arts Comment (11 Jun 2007) Arts, 27. ISSN: 0261-3077.
1.3.83 Contributor to ‘How to solve the housing riddle’ Architects’ Journal Agenda (19 Jul 2007) 15. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.84 ‘New Urbanism Gathering Pace’ Waterfront Review News Analysis Debate 2 (Aug 2007) 4-5.
1.3.85 ‘Speculative office building wrap space for unknown users’ Architecture Today 181 (Sept 2007) 37. ISSN: 0958-6407.
1.3.86 ‘Sustentabilidade Na Construção E concepção’ Expressoimobiliário Residencial & Lazer (6 Dec 2007) VII.  
1.3.87 ‘Does UNESCO exert too much power over cities? Yes.’ Building Design (14 Dec 2007) 11. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.88 ‘UNESCO is misguided on the preservation of World Heritage Sites’ Architecture Today Forum and Opinion 84 (2 Jan 2008) 9. ISSN: 0958-6407.
1.3.89 ‘Globalisation and Architecture’ The Architectural Review CCXXIII/1332 (Feb 2008) 74/2-77/2. ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.3.90 ‘Sustainability and Traditional Architecture’ Congress for the New Urbanism Green Council Report Research vii (Mar 2008) 14-15.
1.3.91 ‘Is the RIBA right to invite Prince Charles to speak? Yes’ Building Design (9 Apr 2008) 11. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.92 ‘Does Government need a chief architect to advise it? No’ Building Design (11 Apr 2008). ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.93 ‘Dinosaur Modern’ RIBA Journal (May 2008) 42-44. ISSN: 1463-9505. 
1.3.94 ‘Put to the Test: heavyweight vs lightweight construction’ Eco Tech: Sustainable Architecture Today’ 17 (May 2008) 14. ISSN: 1474-5054. Published by Architecture Today plc.
1.3.95 ‘Manufacturing Consent’ Building Magazine Comment/Second Opinion (1 Aug 2008) 26-27. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.96 ‘… or habitual prejudice’ Building Design Your Say (12 Sept 2008) 10. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.97 ‘They’re having you on’ Building Magazine Comment/Second Opinion (26 Sept 2008) 36-37. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.98 ‘Let’s talk about sects’ Building Magazine (31 Oct 2008) 21-2. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.99 ‘The Idiot’s Guide to Architecture’ Building Magazine Comment/Second Opinion (12 Dec 2008) 33. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.100 ‘Craft Work’ RIBA Journal (Jan 2009) 46-48. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.101 ‘Lost in wonder at Palladio at the RA’ Building Design (30 Jan 2009). ISSN: 0007-3423. 
1.3.102 ‘Greenwash’ Planning in London 68 (Jan-Mar 2009) 6-7. ISSN.1366-9672.
1.3.103 ‘Traditional Urban Design’ ADAM Architecture, www.adamarchitecture.com (Feb 2009).
1.3.104 ‘I’m Cynically Depressed’ Building Magazine Comment/First Person (13 Mar 2009) 30-31. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.105 ‘Is the RIBA right to invite Prince Charles to speak? Yes’ Building Design Opinion (9 Apr 2009) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.106 ‘The Special Ones’ Building Magazine Analysis & Comment (17 Apr 2009) 22-23. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.107 ‘Is our planning system open and democratic?’ Building Design (24 Apr 2009) 3. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.108 ‘Healing the Healthy’ Building Magazine Comment/First Person (22 May 2009) 24-25. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.109 ‘World Heritage sites: Too much of a good thing?’ Planning in London 69 (Apr-Jun 2009) 8. ISSN: 1366-9632.
1.3.110 ‘Chelsea changed everything’ Building Magazine Comment/First Person (10 Jul 2009) 26-7. ISSN: 0007-3318. 
1.3.111 ‘Delusions of Adequacy’ Building Magazine Comment/Second Opinion (7 Aug 2009) 31. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.112 ‘Create your own instant classic’ Homebuilding & Renovating Design: Master Class/House Design (Aug 2009) 74-80. ISSN: 14715791.
1.3.113 ‘The Dialogue of the Deaf’ Building Magazine Comment/Second Opinion (11 Sept 2009) 28-29. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.114 ‘Shrink and go back to basics’ Building Magazine Analysis/CABE (11 Sept 2009) 27. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.115 ‘Truth, Falsity and Tradition in the management of the historic environment’ Conservation Bulletin 72 (Autumn 2009) 5-8. ISSN: 0753-8674. 
1.3.116 ‘Every city is also a history book’ Building Magazine (6 Nov 2009) 33. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.117 ‘Wornum in Excelsis’ RIBA Journal (175) Rethink (Dec 2009) 50. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.118 ‘Will design thresholds improve public buildings? No’ Building Magazine Opinion (11 Dec 2009) 9. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.119 ‘A new regime for Heritage Assets’ Planning in London 71 (Oct-Dec 2009) 32-34.

2010s
1.3.120 ‘Follow the Five Orders’ Home Building & Renovating 71(nd) 91. 
1.3.121 ‘The blank stare of the architect’ Building Magazine Comment/First Person (26 Feb 2010) 26-27. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.122 ‘The Tory green paper might be radical but that’s not entirely a good thing’ The Architects’ Journal Opinion (4 Mar 2010) 18. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.123 ‘Progress isn’t always modernist’ RIBA Journal Analysis/Rethink/Traditional Architecture (May 2010) 40, 42. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.124 ‘Classical Architecture: Three Fallacies’ The Architects’ Journal (6 May 2010) 32-33. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.125 ‘A fool and his client’s money’ Building Magazine Comment/Second Opinion (14 May 2010) 32. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.126 ‘Will the localism agenda create better architecture? Yes’ Building Design Debate (9 Jul 2010) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.127 ‘PPS5 and the Three Rules of Bureaucracies’ Planning in London (Jul-Sept 2010) 55.
1.3.128 ‘Protecting design quality’ Planning in London 75 (Oct-Dec 2010) 8. ISSN: 1366-9672.
1.3.129 ‘Whose Heritage?’ Managing Historical Cities (UNESCO World Heritage Series) 27 (Nov 2010) 82-88.
1.3.130 ‘Review 2010’ Building Design (17 Dec 2010) 12. ISSN:0007-3423.
1.3.131 ‘Architects’ might just have to accept that their designs are for people’ Planning in London The Localism Bill 76 (Jan-Mar 2011) 13.
1.3.132 ‘New Athlone Needed, Adam tells inquiry’ (18 Feb 2011) 3. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.133 ‘Should the British tax payer be funding UNESCO? No’ Building Design Debate (4 Mar 2011) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.134 ‘Sticking with tradition’ Selfbuild & Design (Aug 2011) 38-41.
1.3.135 ‘The Shape of Things to Come’ EcoReport Viewpoint (Aug 2011) 5.
1.3.136 ‘Will design thresholds improve public building? No’ Building Design Debate (Dec 2011, 2009) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.137 ‘The industry predicts: here we go again …’ Building Magazine Feature Predications (6 Jan 2012) 40. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.138 ‘It’s time for a new Serpentine brief. Yes’ Building Design Debate 2014 (18 May 2012) 7. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.139 ‘Is the summer pavilion plan a con? Yes.’ Building Design Debate (18 Jun 2012) 7. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.140 ‘Should the South Bank Centre be listed? No.’ Building Design Opinion 2023 (20 Jul 2012) 7. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.141 ‘Developers at the mercy of artistically trained architects’ Estates Gazette The Week/Comment (16 Sept 2012) 70. ISSN: 1366-9672.
1.3.142 ‘The Globalisation of Modern Architecture’ Planning in London (Oct-Dec 2012) 36-7. 
1.3.143 ‘The Globalisation of Modern Architecture’ Planning in London (Jan 2013) 38.
1.3.144 ‘Speaking out: Architecture is peppered with style prejudice’ Building Design (25 Jan 2013) 7. ISSN: 0007-3423.
1.3.145 ‘Will China Transform Architecture? : The rise of the metaphor is just the start’ Prospect (online) Home: Arts & Books (1 Feb 2013). ISSN: 1359-5024.
1.3.146 ‘Mission Statement’ RIBA Journal Context/Feedback, Exchange (Feb 2013) 32. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.147 ‘Who Designs Buildings?’ Planning in London (Journal of the London Planning and Development Forum) (article originally intended for Estates Gazetteer 85 (Mar/Apr 2013) 40. ISSN: 1366-9672.
1.3.148 ‘Speaking out: “Radical” Richard Rogers is not as anti-establishment as he appears’ Building Magazine 2070 (19 Jul 2013) 9. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.149 ‘Speaking out’ Building Magazine (25 Jul 2013) 7. ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.150 ‘Rogers vs The Prince: A battle between two establishments’ Building Magazine Community Opinion (30 Aug 2013). ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.151 ‘Will it save town centres? A network systems analysis’ Planning in London 87 (Oct-Dec 2013) 9-10.
1.3.152 ‘Place attachment’ ‘The Critics’ The Architects’ Journal (20 Oct 2013). ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.153 ‘Who’s afraid of big bad post modernism?’ Building Magazine Community Opinion (8 Nov 2013). ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.154 ‘Modernism has lost its way’ Building Magazine (19 Nov 2013). ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.155 ‘What does 2014 have in store for architecture? Building Magazine Community Opinion (14 Jan 2014). ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.156 ‘A Study of the impact of Global culture on architecture has relegated design debates to their place’ RIBA Journal (Jan 2014), 38. ISSN: 1463-9505.
1.3.157 ‘Politicians can’t be trusted on Garden Cities’ Building Magazine Community Opinion (22 Feb 2014). ISSN: 0007-3318.
1.3.158 ‘Respecting the Narrative of the Place’ Conservation Bulletin 72 (Summer 2014) 26-27. ISSN: 0753-8674.
1.3.159 ‘New housing in historic places: respecting the narrative of place’ Conservation Bulletin 72 (Summer 2014). ISSN: 0753-8674.
1.3.160 ‘Planning Portal: has the NPPF made planning any easier? The Architects’ Journal (11 Jul 2014) 48. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.161 ‘Tomorrow’s Home’ The Architects’ Journal (31 Oct 2014) 46-9. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.3.162 ‘Die vielen kopien Manhattans’ Kultur Austausch (Jan 2015) 58-60.
1.3.163 ‘The building I wish I had designed – Gunner Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library’ For RIBA Friends of Architecture. A-Magazine 2 (Mar 2015) 68-69.
1.3.164 ‘Traditional Architecture and the New Politics’ Traditional Building Magazine (16 Feb 2017)
1.3.165 ‘Lines of Thought’ Architecture Today (April 2017) 8.
1.3.166 ‘Leafy suburbs face death by a thousand cuts’ The Sunday Times (February 17th 2019) 9.
1.3.167 ‘The greenest building is the one that already exists’ Architects Journal (24 Sept 2019)
1.3.168 ‘Esther McVey is wrong about architecture in every dimension’ Building Design (4 Oct 2019)

2020's
1.3.168 ‘Eternal Hopes’, Viewpoint, Architecture Today (March 2020), 6-8.
1.3.169 ‘Modernism is another tradition’, Culture Essay, RIBA Journal (March 2020), 83,84.
1.3.170 ‘Claims that only one kind of architecture is for the future are meaningless’, The Architects’ Journal (March 2020).
1.3.171 ‘Eternal Hopes’ Architecture Today, (March 2020)
1.3.172 ‘Old and in the way? Not a bit of it’ Architects Journal (6 July 2020)
1.3.173 ‘Root and Branch Reform of the Planning System’ Policy Exchange (Aug 2020)
1.3.174 ‘Why do we pursue innovation for innovation’s sake?’ Architects Journal (14 July 2021)
1.3.175 ‘My Favourite Painting’ Country Life (20 July 2020)
1.3.176 ‘El Lenguaje de la Arquitectura’ Teatro Marittimo (Jan 21)
1.3.177 ‘The role of evolution and invention of tradition in identity and the built environment’ El papel de la evolución y la invención (Feb 21)
1.3.178 ‘Why do we pursue innovation for innovation’s sake?’ Architects Journal (14 July 2021)
1.3.179 ‘¿Cómo crees que afecta el cambio climático al patrimonio cultural?’ PH105 (October 21)
1.3.180 ‘Heritage policy must adapt in response to climate change’ Architecture Today (Feb 22)
1.3.181 ‘Climate change and heritage’ Context (March 22)
1.3.182 ‘Will we soon see the end of the sash window?’ Architects Journal (4 Aug 2022)
1.3.183 ‘The Elefante in the room’ Building Design (15 Aug 2022)
1.3.184 ‘Who’s it all for?’ Building Design (14 Sept 2022)
1.3.185 ‘Let’s get real’ Building Design (20 Oct 2022)
1.3.186 ‘Beauty is in the eye of the community’ Building Design (6 Dec 2022)
1.3.87 ‘This motley crew of place-makers will only succeed when they share the same vision’ Building Design (6 Feb 2023)
1.3.188 ‘Why is architecture’s biggest cash prize also its biggest secret?’ Building Design (21 April 2023)
1.3.189 ‘Architects won’t save the planet’ Building Design (27 June 2023)
1.3.190 ‘How does anything get built?’ The Critic (Dec/Jan 24)



1.4 Review Articles/Book Reviews by ROBERT ADAM 
1.4.1 ADAM, Robert, The Architects’ Journal (30 Oct 1985) 75. ISSN: 0003-8466. On The Classical Orders of Architecture by Robert Chitham (London; New York 1985). 
1.4.2 The Architects’ Journal, Book Reviews (10 Sept 1986) 76. ISSN: 0003-8466. On Byzantine Architecture by Cyril Mango (London 1986).
1.4.3 The Architectural Review, Book Reviews (4 Feb 1987) 76. On The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferris (Princeton, NJ 1986). ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.4.4 The Architects’ Journal 187/12 (1988) 81. ISSN: 0003-8466. On the exhibition Drawing lessons: English cathedrals drawn by Dennis Creffield. ISSN: 0003-8466.
1.4.5 Royal Society of Arts Journal 140/5430 (1989) 469-470. On The built, the unbuilt and the unbuildable: in pursuit of architectural meaning by Robert Harbison (Cambridge, Massachusetts 1991). 
1.4.6 The Architectural Review Books 1107 (May 1989). On John Wood: Architect of Obsession by Tim Mowl and Brian Earnshaw (Bath: 1988) 1215. ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.4.7 The Architects’ Journal, Review (13 Dec 1989) 77. ISSN: 0003-8466. On The Origins of the Romanesque: Near Eastern influences on European art, 4th -12th centuries by V.T. Atroshenko and Judith Collins (London 1985). 
1.4.8 Building Design (28 Sept 1990) 28-29. ISSN: 0007-3423. On Palladio’s Villas: Life in the Renaissance Countryside by Paul Holberton (London 1990).
1.4.9 Royal Society of Arts Journal CXL/5430 (Jun 1992) 470-471. On Contemporary architectural drawings: donations to the Avery Library Centennial Drawings Archive edited by Janet Parks (San Francisco 1991).
1.4.10 The Architects’ Journal 199/19 (19 Jan 1994) 51. ISSN: 0003-8466. On Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings by Howard Saalman (London 1993). 
1.4.11 The Architects’ Journal, Review, 200/5 (4 Aug 1994) 42. ISSN: 0003-8466. On Andrea Palladio: The Architect in his Time by Bruce Boucher (New York; London 1994).
1.4.12 ‘Perspectives 2/9 (1994) 19. On The oral history of modern architecture: Interviews with the greatest architects of the twentieth century by John Peter (New York 1994). 
1.4.13 RIBA Journal (Feb 1998) 25. ISSN: 1463-9505. On Joseph Ramée: International Architect of the Revolutionary Era by Paul V. Turner (Cambridge; New York 1996). 
1.4.14 RIBA Journal, Review (Nov 1998) 29 & 31. ISSN: 1463-9505. On Building the Georgian City by James Ayres (New Haven; London c.1998).
1.4.15 The Architectural Review (1999). ‘The Athenian Acropolis’. ISSN: 0003-861X.
1.4.16 Building Design (12 March 1999) 21. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Pope of Philanthropy’. 
1.4.17 The Architects’ Journal (3 Feb 2000) 46. ISSN: 0003-8466. On Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture tr. Ingrid D Rowland (Cambridge 1999). 
1.4.18 Building Design, Culture (4 Jul 2003) 18. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Roman Holiday’. 
1.4.19 Building Design (30 Jan 2009) 17. ISSN: 0007-3423. On the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition ‘Andrea Palladio: His Life and Legacy’ (31 Jan-13 Apr 2009). 

1.5 Published Letters by ROBERT ADAM
1.5.1 The Architectural Review CLVIII/943 (Sept 1975) 128. ISSN: 0003-861X. ‘Collage City’. 
1.5.2 The Architects’ Journal Letters (19 May 1976) 966. ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘Pattern Books Forbidden’.
1.5.3 The Architectural Review RSVP (1976/1977) 330. ISSN: 0003-861X. ‘Towards another architecture’: 5. ‘What do the artificers say?’. 
1.5.4 The Architectural Review RSVP (1976/1977) 137. ISSN: 0003-861X. ‘Towards another architecture’: 3. ‘What does architecture do?’. 
1.5.5 The Architectural Review RSVP (Feb 1977) 72. ISSN: 0003-861X ‘What is architecture then?’. 
1.5.6 The Architectural Review RSVP CLXL/961 (Mar 1977) 135. ‘ISSN: 0003-861X. ‘Towards another architecture’. 8. ‘What does architecture do then?’. 
1.5.7 The Architects’ Journal Letters (30 Apr 1980). ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘Is Post-Modernism really right-wing?’.
1.5.8 Hampshire Chronicle (Jul 1981) ‘Keeping the Frink’.
1.5.9 Hampshire Chronicle (10 Dec 1981) ‘The Frink Horse’.
1.5.10 RIBA Journal (Feb 1982). ISSN: 1463-9505. ‘The Damaging Effects of Modernism’. 
1.5.11 Building Design (9 Apr 1982) 10. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Technology in its Place’. 
1.5.12 The Architects’ Journal (12 Sept1982) 46. ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘Credit Extension’.
1.5.13 The Architects’ Journal Reviews (Apr 1983) 26. ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘Librarians’ Reference’.
1.5.14 The Architectural Reviews, CLXXVI/1053. ISSN: 0003-861X. (Nov 1984) 5-6. ‘Past and Post-Classicism’. 
1.5.15 Building Design Letters (1 Feb 1991). ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Woolly Nonsense’.
1.5.16 Building Design (4 Apr 1997). ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Historical Abuse’. 
1.5.17 The Architects’ Journal (6 Nov 1997) 30. ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘RIBA Awards are no measure of quality’.
1.5.18 Building Design Letters (7 Aug 1998) 12. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Modern Review’.
1.5.19 Evening Standard (14 Oct 2000) 57. ‘New Athlone House doesn’t tower’.
1.5.20 The Daily Telegraph Comment/Letters to the Editor (3 Apr 2002) 23. ‘Architectural Heritage’.
1.5.21 Hampshire Chronicle Letters to the Editor (20 Sept 2002). Pastiche’.
1.5.22 Hampshire Chronicle Letters to the Editor (25 Oct 2002) 14. Modernist’.
1.5.23 Building Design Letters 1583 (13 Jul 2003). ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Past Style’ and ‘House Style’.
1.5.24 Building Design Comment (16 Jul 2004) 10. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Forward March’.
1.5.25 The Architects’ Journal Letters (Nov 2004) 21. ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘Modern gobbledegook! Tradition has its place’.
1.5.26 Hampshire Chronicle HC Letters (8 Feb 2005) 14. ‘Cheap Jibe’.
1.5.27 Building Design (4 Mar 2005) 9. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘We asked: Is it ethically OK to design …?’
1.5.28 Hampshire Chronicle Letters to the Editor (1 Jul 2005) 10. ‘Variety and Density Please’.
1.5.29 Building Design Focus (21 Apr 2006) 13. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘We asked: Can you name the minister for architecture?’.
1.5.30 Architects’ Journal Letters (7 Jun 2007) 20. ISSN:0003-8466. ‘Radical design isn’t the only way for Edinburgh’.
1.5.31 Building Design Your Say, Letter of the Week (10 Aug 2007) 8. ISSN:0007-3423. ‘Modernists are not democrats’.
1.5.32 Building Design Your Say, Letter of the Week (23 Nov 2007) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Power is a balancing act’.
1.5.33 Building Design Tour Say, Letter of the Week (8 Aug 2008) 8. ISSN: 00073423. ‘So unfair it’s all based on flair’.
1.5.34 Building Design Your Say (6 Nov 2008) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Wider Tradition’.
1.5.35 Building Design Your Say (26 Feb 2010) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Modern Mirage.
1.5.36 Building Design Your Say (23 Jul 2010) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Less is More’.
1.5.37 Building Design (18 Mar 2011) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Past Master’.
1.5.38 Building Design Letters (27 May 2011) 8. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Protests over Ai Weiwei are misguided and naïve’.
1.5.39 The Architect’s Journal Letters Received (28 Jul 2011) 16. ISSN: 0003-8466. ‘Traditional Prejudices’.
1.5.40 Building Design Letters (2 Sept 2011) 10. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Traditional architects are blocked every time’.
1.5.41 Building Design Letters (5 Apr 2012) 14. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Biennale pledge makes no sense’.
1.5.42 The Architectural Review (Sept 2012) 26. ISSN: 0003-861X. ‘Out of Order’. 
1.5.43 Building Design Letters (18 Oct 2013). ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Don’t let style wars into listing’.
1.5.44 Hampshire Chronicle Letters to the Editor (10 Jul 2014) ‘Save us from this corporate vandalism’. 
1.5.45 RIBA Journal Exchange (Dec 2014) 56. ISSN: 1463-9505. ‘I am sorry that Mr Pollard doesn’t like our village extension’.
1.5.46 Building Design Comment (14 Oct 2015) 12. ISSN: 0007-3423. ‘Turn off the style’
1.5.47 The Daily Telegraph Letters to the Editor (19 Jul 2016) 17. ISSN: 0307-1235. ‘Now is no time for house-builders to sit on planning permissions’.

1.6 Joint-authored papers
1.6.1 ADAM, Robert and JAMIESON, Claire (2013) Identifying Trends in Masterplanning: A Typological Classification System (Urban Design International 19) 274-290.

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