Jean-Pierre Adam (born 24 November 1937 in Paris) is a French

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

and

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

specialising in ancient architecture.

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 The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

. 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 The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the e ...

, including in

Pompeii Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

and in 1999 he published a book about

Roman architecture Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style. The two styles are often considered on ...

entitled ''Roman Building: Materials and Techniques''. Previously, he had also excavated the

Tomb of Akhethetep The Tomb of Akhethetep, also known as Mastaba of Akhethetep (french: Mastaba d'Akhethétep), is a tomb complex in Saqqarah, Egypt. It was built for Akhethetep, a royal official, near the western part of the Pyramid of Djoser. Akhethetep was an ...

Saqqarah Saqqara ( ar, سقارة, ), also spelled Sakkara or Saccara in English , is an Egyptian village in Giza Governorate, that contains ancient burial grounds of Egyptian royalty, serving as the necropolis for the ancient Egyptian capital, Memphis. ...

along with

Christiane Ziegler Christiane Ziegler (born May 3, 1942, in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue), is a French Egyptology, Egyptologist, curator, director emeritus of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre Museum and editorial director of the archaeological mission fro ...

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 du Louvre is an institution of higher education and grande école located in the Aile de Flore of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France. It is dedicated to the study of archaeology, art history, anthropology and epigraphy. Admission is ...

, the École de Chaillot, the École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est and the

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

(EPFL); he had also held positions in Paris, Rome and the

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

.EPFL
Jean-Pierre Adam
Accessed 5 July 2013

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adam, Jean-Pierre French archaeologists 20th-century French architects 1937 births Living people Artists from Paris École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne faculty