Founder and president of the iconic architectural firm SITE and rogue sculptor, James Wines, FAAR'57, has been awarded the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. This award is given "in recognition of a distinguished individual who has made a profound and long-term contribution to the contemporary practice of design."
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, FAAR'84 will step down at the end of December after twenty-five years as president of the American Academy in Rome. Her many honors include the 12th Vincent Scully Prize awarded by the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
View The Staff Meal at the American Academy in Rome, a charming meditation on food and the Academy by the Rome-born film director Alex Infascelli.
Strunk and White's The Elements of Style illustrated by Maira Kalman, AFAAR'12 is available in both hardbound and paperback versions.
Gretchen Kromer, FAAR'73 has a new book, Ninfa in Winter, a collection of black-and-white photographs of the garden and its surrounding area with brief text.
Lascaux, Rome, Terracina, Time, Diderdot. See videos of the work of the architect Ron Dirsmith, FAAR'60.