Jean-Pierre Adam

Biography

Adam was born in Paris. Following a special diploma from the School of Architecture in 1965, he entered the ancient architecture department of the CNRS. He produced several monumental studies in France and worldwide, and became director of the Office of Ancient Architecture of Paris, located in the north tower of the Castle of Vincennes.

He has conducted various studies on architectural excavation sites of various Ancient Roman, Greek and Egyptian sites around the Mediterranean, including in Pompeii and in 1999 he published a book about Roman architecture entitled Roman Building: Materials and Techniques. Previously, he had also excavated the Tomb of Akhethetep in Saqqarah along with Christiane Ziegler and Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë between 1991 and 1999, publishing their findings in a book. He has authored books on Greek architecture L'architecture militaire grecque (2000) as well as on Ancient Egypt, Les pyramides d'Égypte. He has conducted research at the Institute de Recherche d' Architecture Antique.

As of 2021, he was teaching at the École du Louvre, the École de Chaillot, the École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); he had also held positions in Paris, Rome and the Lebanon.

Publications

• Le passé recomposé. Chroniques d'archéologie fantasque (1988)
• L'archéologie devant l'imposture (1975)

References

References

1. Prey, Pierre de la Ruffinière Du. (1994). "The villas of Pliny from antiquity to posterity". University of Chicago Press.
2. (2002). "The natural history of Pompeii". Cambridge University Press.
3. Adam, Jean-Pierre. (1999). "Roman building: materials and techniques". [[Routledge]].
4. Eydoux, Henri Paul. (1982). "Jean-Pierre Adam, L'architecture militaire grecque.". Bulletin Monumental.
5. (1992). "Fortificationes antiquae: including the papers of a conference held at Ottawa University, October 1988". J.C. Gieben.
6. EPFL: [https://web.archive.org/web/20211026211033/https://people.epfl.ch/jean-pierre.adam/bio?lang=en&cvlang=en Jean-Pierre Adam]. Accessed 5 July 2013
7. Delvoye, Charles. (1990). "Jean-Pierre Adam, Le passé recomposé. Chroniques d'archéologie fantasque". L'Antiquité Classique.
8. Gohau, Gabriel. (1990). "Jean-Pierre Adam, Le passé composé : chroniques d'archéologie fantasque, 1988". Raison présente.
9. Gohau, Gabriel. (1976). "Jean-Pierre Adam, L'archéologie devant l'imposture, 1975". Raison présente.