Dr John Lowrey is a senior lecturer in architectural history in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Edinburgh University. He is also Dean of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Humanities and Social Science. His research interests are mainly Scottish and mainly in the long eighteenth century, with a special interest and wide range of publications in the architecture and urban design of the Enlightenment period, the early classical country house of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and the designed landscape of Scotland.

• Living with the subject, Keith Adam; trivial pursuit? a portrait of the artist in letters and diaries, Margaret Sanderson; architects or gentlemen? Adam heraldry and its implications, Iain Gordon Brown; early references to the Adam brothers and family, William Kay; Robert Adam's public buildings, Ronald MacInnes; the parent style or the original sin? Adam revived, Eileen Harris; additions and deletions from Adam's catalogue raisonee, David King; drawn from the past - computer modelling of Adam buildings, Sandy Kinghorn.