Features

Fellows and Residents arrive in Venice to present, perform, and participate in the closing events of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

Cynthia Liu, an Oxford classicist and 2025–26 Rome Prize Fellow, discusses her work on Greco-Roman and Chinese classical canons ahead of her upcoming book.

The American Academy in Rome is proud to celebrate Garrett Bradley and Gala Porras-Kim, who have been named 2025 MacArthur Fellows.

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.