Dr Eileen Joyce Harris (born

1932 Events January * January 4 – The British authorities in India arrest and intern Mahatma Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel. * January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932), Sakuradamon Incident: Korean nationalist Lee Bong-chang fails in his effort ...

) is an

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architectural historian and author. She is an

expert An expert is somebody who has a broad and deep understanding and competence in terms of knowledge, skill and experience through practice and education in a particular field. Informally, an expert is someone widely recognized as a reliable s ...

Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his o ...

and is Honorary Librarian and Consultant to the Adam Project at

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Early and family life

Eileen Joyce Harris is

and married to

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John Harris, has a son, Lucian Guthrie, and a daughter, Georgina, and lives in

and

Badminton, Gloucestershire Badminton is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It consists of Great Badminton and Little Badminton. History In 1612 Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester, bought from Nicholas Boteler his manors of Great and Little Ba ...

, UK. Eileen Harris (née Spiegel) was born in November 1932 to Paul Spiegel (20 June 1904 - 15 June 1991) and Irene Stein (14 September 1900, Russia - 25 December 1991) in the city of

Brooklyn, New York Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

. Eileen also has a younger brother, Michael Ivan Spiegel (25 December 1934, Brooklyn, New York - 3 August 2012, San Francisco, California), who was a famous antitrust lawyer and also Deputy Attorney General of California for 25 years.

Career

Harris is an internationally recognised

scholar, publishing extensively on the subject for over 40 years. Harris, along with Nicholas Savage (of the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

Library), has been working part-time on an integrated catalogue of Sir John Soane's art, architectural and general volumes and pamphlets in his library at

, being made available online.Sir John Soane's Museum Library
retrieved 20 November 2007

Books (in reverse chronology)

The Country Houses of Robert Adam
(2007) From the Archives of Country Life, Aurum Press Ltd, , .
The Genius of Robert Adam: His Interiors
(2001) Paul Mellon Centre for Studies, Yale University Press, , . Selected by Choice as a 2003 Outstanding Academic Title. Selected by Architects Journal as one of the Books of the Year (2001).
Osterley Park, Middlesex
(1994) National Trust Guide Books, , .
Architectural Books in Britain, 1556-1785: An Historical and Bibliographical Account
(1990) Rizzoli Intl Pubns, , .
Arbours & Grottos. A Facsimile of the Two Parts of Universal Architecture, 1755 and 1758
(1979) Scolar Press, , .
Sir William Chambers: Knight of the Polar Star
(1970) with J. Mordaunt Crook and John Harris, Zwemmer, , .
Furniture of Robert Adam
(1963) Chapters in Art Series, Tiranti, , .

Books - Exhibition Catalogues

(2004) edited with Nicholas Savage, Sir John Soane's Museum.

Articles

Robert Adam on Park Avenue: The Interiors for Bolton House
(1995) The Burlington Magazine, Vol 137, No 1103, February 1995, pp 68–75.

(1992) Apollo, No 366, 1992, pp 83–86.
Sir John Soane's Library: "O, Books! Ye Monuments of Mind"
(1990) Apollo, No 338, April 1990, part of pp 224–251.

(1989) The Burlington Magazine, No 1031, 1989, p 101.
"Vitruvius Britannicus" before Colin Campbell
(1986) The Burlington Magazine, Vol 128, No 998, May 1986, pp 340–346.
Burke and Chambers on the Sublime and Beautiful
(1967) Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower on his 65th birthday, edited by Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard and Milton J Lewine, Phaidon, London, pp 207–13.

References

External links

Sir John Soane's Museum
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