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James Playfair (5 August 1755 – 23 February 1794) was a Scottish architect who worked largely in the neoclassical tradition. Biography. Playfair was born in Benvie near Dundee, where his father was the parish minister. He was the brother of William Playfair the engineer, and the mathematician John Playfair.
- Architect
- 5 August 1755, Benvie, Forfarshire, Scotland
- Jessie Graham
- 23 February 1794 (aged 38), Edinburgh, Scotland
James Playfair (8 July 1860 – 25 May 1937) was noted for his entrepreneurship in the Great Lakes shipping, lumbering, grain handling, and industrial manufacturing businesses. He was a central figure in the establishment of Midland, Ontario, Canada.
- Great Lakes shipping; Midland businessman
- Charlotte Ogilivie
- Businessman
Of his children two became well-known in their fields: James George Playfair practised medicine in Florence and William Henry Playfair who was three at the time of his father’s death became an architect. Playfair’s early designs have a refined neo-classical simplicity.
James Playfair lived from 1755 to 1794. He was a Scottish architect remembered primarily for his work in the neo-classical tradition. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
28 de abr. de 2008 · James Playfair was an architect active, particularly in Scotland, in the late-18th century. He was born in Benvie, near Dundee, Scotland on 5 August 1755 and died in Edinburgh, Scotland on 23 February 1794. He was the father of the architect William Henry Playfair (born 1790, died 1857). Bibliography.
La afición de Playfair a la geología se inició como consecuencia de su amistad con James Hutton, al que solía acompañar en sus excursiones y trabajo de campo. Tras la muerte de este, Playfair publicó Ilustraciones sobre la Teoría de la Tierra de Hutton (1802), que gracias a su escritura clara y sencilla contribuyó a difundir el uniformismo de su maestro mucho más que la propia obra de ...
Cairness was built between 1791 and 1797 to designs by architect James Playfair and replaced an earlier house of 1781 by Robert Burn, which was largely incorporated into the Playfair scheme. Sir John Soane assisted in the final stages of the construction following Playfair’s untimely death in 1794.
