Covering eleven disciplines ranging from architecture to preservation and conservation, the American Academy in Rome presents the 2021-22 Rome Prize and Italian Fellowships to thirty-five American and five Italian artists and scholars. The prizes help support the independent work and research of individuals within the arts and humanities. Each award recipient receives a stipend, workspace, in addition to room and board at the American Academy's campus in Rome set to start in September 2021.

Prize winners are selected annually by an independent jury. This year the Rome Prize Competition received a total of 874 applications from 46 US states and 22 countries. To date, this group of Rome Prize winners "is the most diverse in the Academy's history" shares the institution. The American Academy Rome President Mark Robbins congratulates this year's winners in a statement. "We welcome these Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows who enter an increasingly global and diverse residential community, reflecting the complexity of US culture abroad. The support for these scholars, artists, writers, composers, and designers strengthens the arts and humanities at a time when this is ever more critical."

Below are the 2021-22 Rome Prize Winners in the categories of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

ARCHITECTURE

Rome Prize in Architecture

• Germane Barnes (Structuring Blackness in Rome) - Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Miami

Arnold W. Brunner/Frances Barker Tracy/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize

• Mireille Roddier and Keith Mitnick (Six Architectures in Search of an Author) - Founders of collaborative design practice Mithick.Roddier and Associate Professors at Taubman College, University of Michigan

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Prince Charitable Trusts/Kate Lancaster Brewster Rome Prize

• Michael Lee (Ganymede’s Garden: Homoeroticism and the Italian Landscape) - History of Landscape Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia

Garden Club of America Rome Prize

• Phoebe Lickwar (Promiscuous Cultures: Agroecology and the Orto Urbano) - Associate Professor, School of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin

To view, the complete list of 2021-22 Rome Prize winners and Italian Fellows click here.