Far Afield

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

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

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.

The New York Times calls 2014 Fellow Dan Hurlin’s Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed a harrowing puppet show.

Dan Hurlin, a 2014 Rome Prize Fellow, will premiere Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed at Bard Summerscape on July 10.  

Barbara Goldsmith, a member of the AAR Board of Trustees and the author of Little Gloria, has died. She was 85 years old.

Anna Campbell Bliss, a 1984 Rome Prize Fellow in design, passed away on October 12, 2015, at her home in Salt Lake City after a long illness. She was 90 years old.

1962 Fellow Ross Holloway has published an article on excavation at Cosa in Martate edizioni.