The American Academy in Rome has announced 29 winners of its annual Rome Prize, for which honorees receive a stipend, work space, and room and board for five months to two years at the Academy’s 11-acre campus, in Rome, to pursue their individual research or area of study.
Considered one of the most prestigious awards given to artists and scholars, the Rome Prize recognizes specialists in architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, literature, music composition, visual arts, and other disciplines. The recipients from the architecture field are Erin Besler of Los Angeles–based Besler & Sons, named a Next Progressives firm by ARCHITECT in 2016 and Marcel Sanchez-Prieto, co-founder of San Diego–based CRO Studio. CRO Studio won an ARCHITECT Progressive Architecture award in 2013, and Besler was also a juror for ARCHITECT's 2017 R+D Awards.
An independent jury select this year's Rome Prize recipients from 928 applicants. See the complete list of this year’s winners below:
Ancient Studies
Liana Brent
Allison L. C. Emmerson
Eric J. Kondratieff
Mark Letteney
Victoria C. Moses
Sean Tandy
Architecture
Erin Besler
Marcel Sanchez Prieto
Design
Dylan Fracareta
Amy Franceschini
Historic Preservation and Conservation
Joannie Bottkol
Lori Wong
Landscape Architecture
Zaneta Hong
Michael James Saltarella
Literature
Kirstin Valdez Quade
Bennett Sims
Medieval Studies
Anna Majeski
Austin Powell
John F. Romano
Modern Italian Studies
Franco Baldasso
Jim Carter
Alessandra Ciucci
Musical Composition
Michelle Lou
Jessie Marino
Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Talia Di Manno
Denis J.-J. Robichaud
Visual Arts
Michael Ray Charles
Sze Tsung Nicolás Leong
Helen O’Leary
Karyn Olivier
Basil Twist
