Kristin Jones – Ephemeral Projects for the Eternal City
Kristin Jones maintains both studio and public practices, working collaboratively across disciplines to create site-specific, time-based projects that frame natural phenomena against the built environment.
Michael Schwarting & Frances Campani – The 1931 Aluminaire House
This presentation concerns the ninety-three-year history of the Aluminaire House, and Michael Schwarting and Frances Campani’s thirty-six years of involvement with it.
Getting lost in Rome is a quintessential first encounter with the city, but how do we find our way back to the ancient modes of navigation, to a world without GPS, and even largely without maps or street signs?
Caroline Cheung – Dolia: Storing Wine for an Empire
Caroline Cheung (2017 Fellow) will discuss the importance of the largest type of pottery in the ancient world, dolia, for the Roman wine trade in her new book.
Jennifer Coates & Hérica Valladares – Mythological Landscapes in the Anthropocene
Hérica Valladares and Jennifer Coates will use Coates’s recent paintings as a jumping-off point to discuss the relevance of classical mythology to the contemporary depiction of landscapes.