GCA/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize Fellows to Research “Landscapes after the Fire”

August 21, 2024

Rome Prize Applications Open on August 24, 2024
Sid Hancock

The GCA’s 2024-2025 Rome Prize Fellows in Landscape Architecture Megumi Aihara and Dan Spiegel will begin their joint fellowship at the American Academy in Rome this winter. Their project, “Landscapes after the Fire,” will study written and visual images of post-fire landscapes across cultures in film, literature, and architectural artifacts. Aihara and Spiegel will focus on the simultaneous devastation and renewal brought about by fire, searching for written and visual images of possible futures that suggest a path for reimagination, resilience, and inhabitation.

Aihara and Spiegel are principals at Spiegel Aihara Workshop in San Francisco. Aihara is an adjunct professor at California College of the Arts. Spiegel is a continuing lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

The Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture, which includes geography, environmental design and planning, landscape and ecological urbanism, landscape history, sustainability, and ecological studies, was established in 1928 with contributions from GCA clubs. The fellowship provides American landscape architects with an opportunity for advanced study, travel, and association with other fellows in Rome. 

Applications for the GCA/Prince Charitable Trusts Rome Prize open on August 24th and are due November 1, 2024, and are accessible through the GCA website:  https://www.gcamerica.org/scholarships.

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