Features

AAR mourns the loss of classicist Michael C. J. Putnam, who passed away on August 19.

Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel (2025 Fellows) they reflect on the parallels between California and Italy, the architecture of resilience, and how their time in Rome has reshaped both their thinking and their community.

As summer settles over the Janiculum, we bid a warm and grateful farewell to the 2025 Rome Prize Fellows

Michelle Chang (2025 Fellow) is investigating how the architecture of artist residencies reflects and reshapes institutional identity.

Selby Wynn Schwartz (2025 Fellow) reflects on the experimental contours of her writing practice, her intellectual and activist networks across Italy and Europe, and the role of lyrical queer ecologies in her evolving vision.

The American Academy in Rome opened the doors of its new library annex in Villa Chiaraviglio.

Lucas René Ramos is investigating the transnational networks that shaped Italy’s queer activism as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy.

The American Academy in Rome celebrated twenty years of the McKim Medal Gala on June 4 at Villa Aurelia.

AAR caught up with Krupali Krusche, whose research focuses on Palladio’s drawings and their enduring influence on how we interpret ruins, space, and architectural memory.

Milo H. Thompson (1965 Fellow), an award-winning architect, educator, and founding principal of the influential architectural firm Bentz/Thompson/Rietow (BTR), died on April 10, 2025.

Carol E. Harrison’s project A Women’s History of Vatican I explores how lay Catholic women opposed papal infallibility during the First Vatican Council (1869–70).

Recipients honored at the McKim Medal Gala embody the challenges of independent creative and scholarly work in the arts and humanities for which the Academy is known.

We interview Peter Benson Miller, a scholar, curator, and former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director, after his lecture at the American Academy in Rome last March.

The 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale centers the American Academy’s fellows, residents, advisors, and affiliated artists and scholars on the world stage. 

The architect David Costanza is rethinking the assumptions behind sustainable building, pushing beyond carbon metrics to consider the human, historical, and technical dimensions of material use.

Rome Prize and Italian Fellows are prominently represented in The Spanish Steps, Revisited, a special exhibition at the Keats-Shelley House in Rome.

Earlier this month, the American Academy in Rome hosted Coins, Counting, and Community, a two-day conference examining the insights emerging from the Roman Republican Die Project 

The American Academy in Rome has announced the winners of the 2025–26 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships.

Jenny Lin, the 2025 Tsao Family Rome Prize Fellow, shares how her project came about, where she has conducted research, and what her favorite vintage clothing market is.

Seven artists and scholars with ties to the American Academy in Rome have been named 2025 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellows—an enduring sign of the Academy’s creative reach and influence.