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Rome Prize Winners Announced

The jury included architect Thom Mayne.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 5/24/2007 12:00:00 AM

The American Academy in Rome has announced the recipients of its annual Rome Prize. Each year, the Academy awards 15 emerging artists in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, design, historic preservation, literature, musical composition, conservation, and visual arts, as well as 15 scholars.

Generally bestowed on artists and scholars in the early or middle stages of their careers, the award includes a stipend, a study or studio, and room and board at the Academy for a period of six months to two years.

Jury chairs included architect Thom Mayne, principal of Morphosis (Design) and artist Laurie Simmons (Visual Arts), among others.

The architecture, design, historic preservation, landscape architecture, and visual arts winners are listed below. For a complete list of winners visit the American Academy.

Architecture

Franklin D. Israel Rome Prize
Frederick Fisher
principal-in-charge, Frederick Fisher and Partners Architects
Art Space Collage Founders Rome Prize
Daniel Mihalyo/Annie Han
Lead Pencil Studio
Spatial Inquiry: Looking at Nothing in RomeDesign

Rolland Rome Prize
John Cary
executive director, Public Architecture
Activist Architecture | Attivismo architettonico Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize
Molissa Fenley
artistic director, Molissa Fenley and Dancers
The Pattern of the Surface

Historic Preservation and Conservation

Booth Family Rome Prize
Jana Dambrogio
conservator, Document Conservation Laboratory, National Archives and Records Administration
A Technical Study of Northeastern Italian Monastic Legal and Accounting Documents and Bindings at the Vatican Secret Archives

National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize
John Ochsendorf
associate professor, department of architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Preservation of Masonry Vaulting in Rome

Landscape Architecture

Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize
Alan Berger
associate professor of landscape architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Landscape Reclamation and the Pontine Marshes

Garden Club of America Rome Prize
Lisa Tziona Switkin
senior associate, Field Operations
Monument Landscapes: Constriction and Construction of the City

Visual Arts

Chuck Close Rome Prize
Daniel Bozhkov
artist
Eternity’s Ephemera: Frescoes of Rome’s Daily Histories Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
Tim Davis
photographer
(Ill)illuminations

John Armstrong Chaloner/Jacob H. Lazarus-Metropolitan Museum of Art Rome Prize
Kate Gilmore
artist and visiting assistant professor, art and design, State University of New York at Purchase
Untitled

Jesse Howard, Jr. Rome Prize
Caveh Zahedi
filmmaker
Ulysses