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Nació en Brooklyn el 26 de mayo de 1865. Era hijo de un abogado, nieto de un médico y descendiente directo del fundador de Rhode Island. Su hermano fue arquitecto. Robert estudió en el Instituto Politécnico de Brooklyn, pero le interesaban más los deportes, el dibujo y la entomología. En 1886 se trasladó a París para estudiar bellas artes.
Chambers's architecture combined English Palladianism and French Neo-Classicism, as can be seen at the Casino, Marino, near Dublin (1758–76), built on a Greek-cross plan, and at his masterpiece, Somerset House, London (1776–96), arguably the grandest official building ever erected in the capital: John Webb's Queen's Gallery, Somerset House (1662), which had an arched rusticated ground ...
Brought up in Sweden by Scottish parents, trained in France, a visitor to China and India, Sir William Chambers (1726-96) was by far the most internationally minded British architect of his time. Settling in London in 1755, Chambers became a favourite of King George III and went on to hold the highest official architectural offices and to build public and private commissions throughout the ...
William Chambers, né le 23 février 1723 à Göteborg et mort le 10 mars 1796 à Londres, est un architecte écossais. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] Fils d'un marchand écossais établi en Suède , William Chambers est envoyé en Angleterre pour faire ses études.
Sir William Chambers, född 23 februari 1723 i Göteborg, död 8 mars 1796 i London, var en svensk-brittisk hovarkitekt och trädgårds- och landskapsarkitekt verksam i London. Chambers utbildade sig till arkitekt i Paris och Rom och betraktas som det sena 1700-talets viktigaste engelska arkitekt.
21 de may. de 2018 · Chambers, Sir William (1723–96). Important British Classical architect. Son of a Scottish merchant, he was born at Göteborg, Sweden, educated in Yorks., and travelled in India and China with the Swedish East India Company (1740–9). In 1749 he enrolled in J. -F. Blondel 's École des Arts in Paris and in 1750 he travelled to Italy, where he ...
Traditionally, William Chambers’s (1723–1796) Designs of Chinese Buildings, Furniture, Dresses, Machines, and Utensils (1757) have been referred to as a pattern book designed for European architects and patrons interested in the so-called ‘Chinese
