Far Afield

Andrew Norman, the 2007 winner of the Samuel Barber Rome Prize, receives a rave review from the New York Times critic David Allen for his composition, Play.

The magazine Domus has featured the work of two current Rome Prize winners, Phu Hoang and Rachely Rotem. The article includes their exploration of Italy’s contemporary ruins.

Thompson Gallery at the Cambridge School of Weston is currently featuring an exhibition on the work of Jack Massey (1961 Fellow), titled Jack Massey—Light & Dark.

A new monograph by 2005 Fellow Allan Wexler, titled Absurd Thinking: Between Art and Design, is now available through Lars Müller Publishers.

SO - IL founders Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu will present the inaugural Mark Robbins Lecture at the AIA New York Center for Architecture on January 19, 2017.

Andrew Norman, a 2007 Rome Prize Fellow in musical composition, has won the Grawemeyer Award for Music.

Chris Hawthorne (2016 Affiliated Fellow) has reviewed the Louis Kahn retrospective at the San Diego Museum of Art for the Los Angeles Times.

The Boston Symphony will premiere 2014 Fellow Eric Nathan’s composition “the space of a door” beginning November 8.

Mary Margaret Jones, chair of the AAR Board of Trustees and a 1998 Fellow, has accepted the 2016 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.

Nicholas de Monchaux (2014 Fellow) has written a new book Local Code: 3,659 Proposals about Data, Design, and the Nature of Cities, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Hargreaves Associates, led by AAR Trustee and 1998 Fellow Mary Margaret Jones, has won the Rosa Barba International Landscape Award.

Christopher Celenza, a 1994 Rome Prize Fellow and a former AAR director, has been named vice provost for faculty affairs at Johns Hopkins University.

2016 Rome Prize winner Stella Nair has won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her project “Shelter, Shrine, and Prison: The Acllauasi and Other Spaces for Women in the Inca Empire.”

Krys Leem, a 2015 Rome Prize Fellow in literature, has been featured in a profile in the Los Angeles Times.

Lei Liang (2012 Fellow) will be featured at at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre in their Composer’s Portrait concert series on November 17. Top New York musicians will perform Lei’s works, along with two of his colleagues, Steven Schick and Mark Dresser.

The architect and AAR Trustee Calvin Tsao has been featured in a Shanghai Daily interview.

The American Academy in Rome remembers its good friend, the architect Francesco Garofalo, who recently passed away.

1991 Fellow David Lang’s the public domain, which features one thousand singers and twenty-five conductors, will be performed at Lincoln Center in New York.

Brian Curran, a 1994 Fellow in history of art, will be honored with a Festschrift symposium at Pennsylvania State University on September 24. This event is open to the public.

AAR President and CEO Mark Robbins (1997 Fellow) will speak about the value, significance, and future of art colonies on July 23 at Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, New York.