The American Academy in Rome presents the 2024–25 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows

The American Academy in Rome has announced the 31 recipients of the 2024–25 Rome Prize. Awarded each year and described as the gift of “time and space to think and work,” the fellowship is intended to “support advanced independent work and research in the arts and humanities.”

“The Rome Prize is one of the most storied fellowship programs in the United States,” said AAR President Peter N. Miller announcing the latest winners. “Over a thousand people compete for the chance to live and work in Rome, inspired by the city and one another. The Rome Prize winners represent a bridge between the United States and Italy, but also between a present of potential and a future of achievement.”

This year’s competition received 1,106 applications — a record high — from applicants in 46 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. The acceptance rate was 2.9 percent. This group of Rome Prize winners has approximately 39 percent who identify as persons of color. Thirteen percent were born outside the United States. The incoming class ranges from 26 to 70 years old, with an average age of 42.

Below are the winners in related architecture and design categories.

ARCHITECTURE

Arnold W. Brunner/Frances Barker Tracy/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize

Michelle JaJa Chang, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with Material Resistance to Symbolic Form

Lily Auchincloss Rome Prize

David Costanza, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, with Bending Stone

DESIGN

Rolland Rome Prize and Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize

Amy Revier, Owner/Director, Amy Revier, Austin, Texas, with Woven Narratives of Rome

HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION

Suzanne Deal Booth Rome Prize

Katherine L. Beaty, Book Conservator for Special Collections, Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard Library, with A Technical Study of Italian Archival Bookbindings

Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize

Krupali Krusche, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame with The Roman Forum – Learning Grounds for the Renaissance – What Did They Truly Learn?

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize

Anthony Acciavatti, Diana Balmori Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Yale University, with Groundwater Earth: The World before and after the Tubewell

Garden Club of America/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize

Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel, Principals, Spiegel Aihara Workshop, San Francisco; Continuing Lecturer, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley (Spiegel), with Landscapes after the Fire

ITALIAN FELLOWS

Enel Foundation Italian Fellow in Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture

Giuseppe Grant, Architect, Rome and Paris; Cofounder, orizzontale, with Roma Ludica: City as Playground

Marcello Lotti Italian Fellow in Music

Daria Scia, Composer, Forio, Italy, with lines of spiritual motion, composing in dialogue with the works of Flannery O’Connor

Franco Zeffirelli Italian Fellow in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

Eugenio Villa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Università di Udine, with Bessarion’s Encyclica ad Graecos (1463) in the Framework of the First Ottoman-Venetian War (1463–1479)